1 Kings 3 Cross References - Bishops

¹ Solomon made affinitie with Pharao king of Egypt, & toke Pharaos daughter, and brought her into the citie of Dauid, vntil he had made an ende of buylding his owne house, and the house of the Lorde, and the wall of Hierusalem round about ² Onely the people sacrificed in hygh places, because there was no house built vnto the name of the Lorde vntill those dayes ³ And Solomon loued the Lorde, walking in the ordinaunces of Dauid his father: saue onely that he sacrificed and offered incense vpon aulters in hygh places ⁴ And the king went to Gibeon, to offer there, for that was the speciall hygh place: And a thousande burnt offringes dyd Solomon offer vpon that aulter ⁵ And in Gibeon the Lorde appeared to Solomon in a dreame by night, and God sayd: Aske what thou wilt, that I may geue it thee ⁶ And Solomon sayde: Thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaut Dauid my father great mercie, when he walked before thee in trueth, in righteousnesse, and in plainnesse of heart with thee, and thou hast kept for him this great mercy, that thou hast geuen him a sonne to sit on his seate, as it is come to passe this day ⁷ And nowe O Lord my God, it is thou that hast made thy seruaunt king in steade of Dauid my father: And I am but young, & wote not howe to go out and in ⁸ And thy seruaunt is in the middest of thy people which thou hast chosen: and veryly the people are so many, that they cannot be told nor nubred for multitude ⁹ Geue therfore thy seruaunt an vnderstanding heart to iudge thy people, that I may discerne betweene good & bad: For who is able to iudge this thy so mightie a people ¹⁰ And this pleased the Lorde well that Solomon had desired this thing ¹¹ And God sayde vnto him: Thou hast not asked for thy selfe long lyfe, neither hast asked riches for thy selfe, nor hast asked the lyfe of thy enemies, but hast asked for thy selfe vnderstanding & discretion in iudgement ¹² Behold, I haue done according to thy wordes, lo I haue geuen thee a wyse & an vnderstanding heart, so that there was none lyke thee before thee, neither after thee shal any aryse lyke vnto thee ¹³ And I haue also geuen thee that which thou hast not asked, euen rychesse and honour, so that ther shalbe no king lyke vnto thee all thy dayes ¹⁴ And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to kepe myne ordinaunces and my commaundementes, as thy father Dauid dyd walke, I will lengthen thy dayes ¹⁵ When Solomon awoke, beholde it was a dreame: And he came to Hierusalem and stoode before the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, & offred burnt offringes and peace offringes, and made a feast to all his seruauntes ¹⁶ Then came there two women that were harlottes, vnto the king, & stoode before him ¹⁷ And the one woman sayde: Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe, with her in the house ¹⁸ And the thirde day after that I was deliuered, she was deliuered also: and we were together, & no straunger with vs in the house, saue we two ¹⁹ And this wiues childe died in the night, for she smothered it ²⁰ And she rose at midnight and toke my sonne from my syde while thyne handmayde slept, and layde it in her bosome, and put her dead childe in my bosome ²¹ And when I rose in the mornyng to geue my chylde sucke, beholde it was dead: But when I had loked vpon it in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne which I dyd beare ²² And the other woman sayd: It is not so, but my sonne liueth, and thy sonne is dead. And she sayde againe: No, but thy sonne is dead, and my sonne is alyue. And thus they pleaded before the king ²³ Then sayde the king: The one sayth, this that is alyue is my sonne, and the dead is thyne: And the other sayth, nay: but thy sonne is the dead, and the liuing childe is myne ²⁴ And the king sayde: Bring me a sworde. And they brought out a sworde before the king ²⁵ And the king sayde: Deuide the liuing child in two, and geue the one halfe to the one, aud the other to the other ²⁶ Then spake the woman whose the liuing childe was, vnto the king (for her bowelles yerned vpon her sonne) and sayde: I besech thee my lorde geue her the liuing childe, and in no wyse slay it: But the other sayde, Let it be neither myne nor thyne, but deuide it ²⁷ Then the king aunswered and sayde: Geue her the liuing childe, and slay it not, for she is the mother therof ²⁸ And all they of Israel hearde of the iudgement which the king had iudged, and feared the king: for they sawe that the wysdome of God was in him to do iustice

¹⁶ And I wyl make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that yf a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede also be numbred

⁵ And he brought hym out, and sayde: loke vp vnto heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And he sayde vnto hym: euen so shall thy seede be

⁷ She sayd also: who would haue sayde vnto Abraham, that Sara shoulde haue geuen chyldren sucke? for I haue borne [him] a sonne in his olde age

¹⁷ That in blessing I wyll blesse thee, and in multiplying I wyll multiplie thy seede as the starres of heauen, and as the sande which is vpon the sea side, and thy seede shall possesse the gates of his enemies

¹² And he dreamed, and beholde there stoode a lather vpo the earth, and the toppe of it reached vp to heauen: and see, the angels of God went vp & downe vpon it ¹³ Yea, and God from aboue leaned vpon it, and sayde: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isahac, the land which thou sleepest vpon, wyll I geue thee and thy seede

⁵⁴ Then Iacob dyd sacrifice vpon the mounte, and called his brethren to eate bread: and they did eate bread, and taryed all nyght in the hyll

²⁰ And it came to passe the thirde day, which was Pharaos birth day, that he made a feast vnto all his seruauntes: and he lyfted vp the head of the chiefe butler, and of the chiefe baker among his seruauntes

⁷ And the seuen thinne eares deuoured the seuen ranke & full eares. And Pharao awaked, and see [it was] a dreame

²⁰ And sayde: oh sir, we came downe hyther at the fyrst tyme to bye foode

³⁰ And Ioseph made haste (for his heart did melt vpon his brother) and sought [where] to weepe, and entred into his chaumber and wept there

¹¹ And Moyses saide vnto God: what am I to go vnto Pharao, and to bryng the chyldren of Israel out of Egypt ¹² And he aunswered. For I wyll be with thee: and this shalbe a token vnto thee that I haue sent thee, After that thou hast brought the people out of Egypt, ye shall serue God vpon this moutayne

¹⁰ Moyses sayd vnto the Lorde: Oh my Lord, I am neither yesterday nor yer yesterday a man eloquet, neither sence thou hast spoken vnto thy seruaunt: but I am slowe mouthed, & slowe tounged ¹¹ And the Lorde sayd vnto hym: who hath made mans mouth? or who maketh the dumbe, or deafe, the seyng, or the blynde? Haue not I the Lorde ¹² And nowe go, and I wyll be with thy mouth, and teache thee what thou shalt say ¹³ He said: oh my Lorde, sende I pray thee, by the hande of hym whom thou wylt sende

³¹ And Israel sawe that myghtie power which the Lorde shewed vpon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lorde, and beleued the Lorde and his seruaunt Moyses

¹³ And on the morowe Moyses sate to iudge the people: and the people stoode about Moyses from morning vnto eue

¹⁶ When they haue a matter, they come vnto me, and I iudge betweene euery man & his neyghbour, & shew them the ordinaunces of God and his lawes

⁵ Nowe therefore yf ye wyll heare my voyce in deede, and kepe my couenaunt, ye shall be [as] a deare treasure vnto me aboue all nations: for al the earth is myne ⁶ Ye shalbe vnto me also a kingdome of priestes, & an holy people: And these are the wordes whiche thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel

¹ And if his sacrifice be a peace offeryng, and he take it from among the droues, whether it be a male or female, he shall bryng such as is without blemishe before the Lorde ² And put his hande vpon the head of his offeryng, and kyll it at the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation: And Aarons sonnes the priestes shal sprinkle the blood vpon the aulter round about ³ And he shall offer somewhat of the peace offeryng, to be a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lorde: euen the fat that couereth the inwardes, and all the fat that is vpon the inwardes ⁴ And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and vpon the flankes, & the kall with the lyuer shall he take away with the kidneys ⁵ And Aarons sonnes shall burne them on the aulter, with the burnt sacrifice which is vpon the wood that is on the fire, to be a burnt sacrifice made by fire for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord ⁶ If he bryng a peace offeryng vnto the Lorde from of the flocke, let hym offer male or female, but without blemishe ⁷ [And] yf he offer a Lambe for his sacrifice, he shall bryng it before the Lorde ⁸ And put his hand vpon his offeringes head, and kyll it before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aarons sonnes shall sprinkle the blood therof rounde about the aulter ⁹ And of the peace offeryng let hym bryng a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lorde, the fat thereof, and the rumpe altogether, which they shall take of harde by the backe bone: and the fat that couereth the inwardes, and all the fat that is vpon the inwardes ¹⁰ And the two kidneys, and the fat that is vpon them, and vpon the flankes, and the kall that is vpon the liuer shall he take away with the kidneys ¹¹ And the priest shall burne them vpon the aulter, to be the foode of a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lorde ¹² If his offeryng be a Goate, he shall bryng it before the Lorde ¹³ And put his hande vpon the head of it, and kyll it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sonnes of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood therof vpon the aulter rounde about ¹⁴ And he shall bring therof his offering, euen a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord, the fat that couereth ye inwardes, & all the fat that is vpon the inwardes ¹⁵ And the two kidneys, and the fat that is vpon them, and vpon the flankes, and the kall vpon the liuer shall he take away with the kidneys ¹⁶ And the priest shall burne them vpon the aulter, for the foode of the sacrifice made by fire for a sweete sauour: All the fat is the Lordes ¹⁷ Let it be a perpetuall statute for your generations throughout your dwellynges, yt ye eate neither fat nor blood

¹¹ This is the law of the peace offering, whiche he shall offer vnto the Lorde ¹² If he offer it to geue thankes, he shall bryng vnto his thanke offering vnleauened cakes mingled with oyle, and vnleauened wafers annoynted with oyle, and cakes mingled with oyle of fine floure fryed ¹³ He shall bryng his offering, with cakes of vnleauend bread for his peace offeringes, to geue thankes ¹⁴ And of all the sacrifice he shall offer one for an heaue offering vnto the Lorde, and it shalbe the priestes that sprinckled the blood of the peace offeringes ¹⁵ And the fleshe of his peace offeringes for thankes geuing, shalbe eate the same day that it is offred: And let hym leaue nothyng of it vntill the morowe ¹⁶ But if the offering of his sacrifice be a vowe, or of his owne free wyll, it shalbe eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and if ought remayne vntill the morowe, it may be eaten ¹⁷ But as muche of the offered fleshe as remayneth vnto the thirde day, shalbe burnt with fire ¹⁸ And if any of the flesh of his peace offeringes be eaten in the thirde day, then shall he that offereth it obtayne no fauour, neither shall it be reckened vnto him, but shalbe an abhomination: therfore the soule that eateth of it, shal beare his sinne ¹⁹ And the fleshe that toucheth any vncleane thing, shal not be eaten, but burnt with fire: and of this fleshe all that be cleane, shall eate therof

³ What man soeuer of the house of Israel kylleth an oxe, or lambe, or goate in the hoast, or that kylleth it out of the hoast ⁴ And bryngeth it not vnto the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering vnto the Lorde before the dwelling place of the Lord, blood shalbe imputed vnto that man, he hath shed blood, and that man shalbe cut of from among his people ⁵ Wherfore, when the chyldren of Israel bryng their offeringes that they offer in the wylde fielde, they shall bryng them vnto the Lorde, euen vnto the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation by the priest, to offer them for peace offeringes vnto the Lorde ⁶ And the priest shall sprinckle the blood vpon the aulter of the Lorde, whiche is before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burne the fat for a sweete sauour vnto the Lorde

²⁹ Thou shalt not make thy daughter common, that thou wouldest cause her to be an whore, lest the lande also fall to whoredome, and become ful of wickednesse

³⁰ I wyll destroy your hye places, and cut away your images, and cast your carkasses vpon ye bodyes of your idols, and my soule shall abhorre you

⁶ And he sayde, Heare my wordes: If there be a prophete of the Lordes among you, I wyll be knowen of him in a vision, and wyll speake vnto hym in a dreame ⁷ My seruaunt Moyses is not so, which is faythfull in all myne house

² And stode before Moyses and Eleazar the priest, and before the lordes, and all the multitude by the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying

¹⁷ Which may go out & in before them, and leade them out and in, that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheepe which haue not a sheephearde

¹⁶ Honour thy father & thy mother, as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee: that thy dayes may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee

⁵ And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy myght

⁶ For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a speciall people vnto hym selfe, aboue all nations that are vpon the earth ⁷ The Lorde dyd not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you because ye were mo in number then any people (for ye were the fewest of all people ⁸ But because the Lorde loued you, and because he would kepe the othe which he had sworne vnto your fathers, therfore hath the Lorde brought you out through a mightie hande, and deliuered you out of the house of bondage, euen from the hande of Pharao kyng of Egypt

¹² And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to feare the Lorde thy God, and to walke in all his wayes, to loue hym, and to serue the Lord thy God with all thyne heart, and with all thy soule

² Ye shall destroy all places wherin the nations whiche ye shall possesse serued their gods, vpon hye mountaynes, on hylles, and vnder euery greene tree ³ You shall ouerthrowe their aulters, and breake their pillers, and burne their groues with fire, and you shall hewe downe the grauen images of the gods that they haue, and bryng the names of them to naught out of that place ⁴ Ye shall not do so vnto the Lorde your God ⁵ But ye shall seeke the place which the Lorde your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and there to dwell, and thyther thou shalt come

¹⁷ There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whore keper of the sonnes of Israel

¹⁵ But thou shalt haue a right and iust waight, and a perfect and a iust measure shalt thou haue: that thy dayes may be lengthed in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee

⁶ And the Lorde thy God wyll circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seede, that thou mayest loue the Lorde thy God, with all thine heart, and all thy soule, that thou mayest lyue

¹⁶ For where as I commaunde thee this day, to loue the Lorde thy God, to walke in his wayes, and to kepe his commaundementes, his ordinaunces, and his lawes, [yf thou so do] thou shalt lyue and multiplie, and the Lorde thy God shall blesse thee in the lande whyther thou goest to possesse it

²⁰ That thou mayest loue the Lord thy God, and be obedient to his voyce, and cleaue vnto hym: For he is thy life, & the length of thy dayes, that thou mayest dwell vpon the earth, which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob, to geue them

² And sayd vnto them: I am an hundred and twentie yeres olde this day, and can no more go out and in: Also the Lorde hath sayd vnto me, Thou shalt not go ouer this Iordane

¹ And Iosuah ye sonne of Nun sent out of Sittim two men to spye secretely, saying: Go, and viewe the land, and also Iericho. And they went, and came into a harlotes house, named Rahab, and lodged there

¹⁴ That day the Lorde magnified Iosuah in the syght of all Israel: and they feared hym, as they feared Moyses all dayes of his lyfe

³ And the inhabitours of Gibeon heard what Iosuah had done vnto Iericho, and to Ai

² They feared exceedingly, for Gibeon was a great citie as any citie of the kingdome, and was greater then Ai, & all the men therof were very mightie

¹ And there was one Iephthah a Gileadite, a strong man, the sonne of an harlot

²³ Elkana her husband aunswered her: Do what seemeth thee best, tary at home vntyll thou hast weaned him, and I beseche the Lord to make good his saying. And so the woman abode, and gaue her sonne sucke, vntyll she weaned hym

¹⁸ And so Samuel called vnto the Lord, and the Lorde sent thunder and rayne the same day: And all the people feared the Lord and Samuel exceedingly

²² For the Lorde will not forsake his people, because of his great names sake: because it hath pleased the Lorde to make you his people

¹⁶ But all Israel and Iuda loued Dauid, because he went out and in before them

² And in time past whe Saul was our king, thou leddest Israel in and out: and the Lord hath sayd to thee, thou shalt feede my people Israel, & thou shalt be a captayne ouer Israel

⁷ Neuerthelesse, Dauid toke the strong hold of Sion: the same is the citie of Dauid

¹⁷ And when they brought in the arke of the Lord, they set it in his place, euen in the middes of the tabernacle that Dauid had pitched for it: and Dauid offered burnt offeringes & peace offeringes before the Lorde ¹⁸ And assoone as Dauid had made an ende of offering burnt offeringes and peace offeringes, he blessed the people in the name of the Lorde of hoastes ¹⁹ And gaue among all the folke, euen among the whole multitude of Israel, aswel to the women as men, to euery one a cake of bread, & a peece of flesshe, and a flacked of wine: And so al the people departed euery one to his house

⁵ Go, and tell my seruaunt Dauid, thus sayeth the Lorde: shalt thou buylde me an house to dwell in

⁸ Now therfore, so say vnto my seruaunt Dauid: thus sayeth the lord of hoastes, I toke thee from the sheepe coate as thou wast folowing sheepe, that thou mightest be ruler ouer my people ouer Israel ⁹ And I was with thee in all that thou wentest to, and haue destroyed all thyne enemies out of thy sight, & haue made thee a great name, lyke vnto the name of the great men that are in the earth ¹⁰ (Also I will appoynt a place for my people Israel, and will plant it, that they may dwell in a place of their owne, & moue no more: neither shall wicked people trouble them any more, as before time ¹¹ And sence the time that I set iudges ouer my people of Israel) And I will geue thee rest from all thyne enemies: And the Lorde telleth thee, that he will make thee an house ¹² And when thy dayes be fulfilled, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and I will set vp thy seede after thee, whiche shall proceede out of thy body, and will stablyshe his kingdome

⁷ And Nathan saide to Dauid, Thou art the man: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I annoynted thee king ouer Israel, and ryd thee out of the hand of Saul ⁸ I gaue thee thy maisters house, and thy maisters wyues into thy bosome, and gaue thee the house of Israel and of Iuda, and might (if that had ben to litle) haue geuen thee so muche more

²⁴ And Dauid comforted Bethsabe his wyfe, & went in vnto her and lay with her, and she bare a sonne, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loued him ²⁵ And had sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet: therefore he called his name Iedidia, of the Lordes behalfe

¹⁷ And thyne handmayde sayde: The worde of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: For my lord the king is as an angel of God, in hearing of good & bad: Therfore the Lorde thy God be with thee

⁴⁷ Let the Lord lyue, and blessed be my strength: magnified be God [euen] the force of my saluation ⁴⁸ It is God that geueth me [power] to reuenge me: & bringeth downe the people vnder me ⁴⁹ He deliuereth me from myne enemies, thou also hast lyft me on hie from them that rose against me: thou hast delyuered me from the wicked man ⁵⁰ And therefore I wyll prayse thee O Lorde among the nations: and wyll sing vnto thy name ⁵¹ He is the towre of saluation for his king, and dealeth mercyfully with his annoynted: euen with Dauid, and with his seede for euermore

⁴⁸ And thus sayd the king: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which hath made one to sit on my seate this day, myne eye seyng it

³ Kepe thou the watch of the Lorde thy God, that thou walke in his wayes, and kepe his statutes, and his preceptes, his iudgementes, and his testimonies, euen as it is written in the lawe of Moyses: that thou mayst prosper in all that thou doest, and in euery thing that thou medlest withall ⁴ That the Lorde also may make good his worde which he spake vnto me, saying: If thy children take heede to their way, that they walke before me in trueth, with all their heartes, & with al their soules, thou shalt not (saith he) be without a man on the seate of Israel

⁴ That the Lorde also may make good his worde which he spake vnto me, saying: If thy children take heede to their way, that they walke before me in trueth, with all their heartes, & with al their soules, thou shalt not (saith he) be without a man on the seate of Israel

⁶ Deale with him therefore according to thy wisdome, and bring not his hoore head downe to the graue in peace

⁹ But thou shalt not count him as vngiltie: For thou art a man of wisdome, and knowest what thou oughtest to do vnto him, his hoore head shalt thou bring to the graue with blood

³ And Solomon loued the Lorde, walking in the ordinaunces of Dauid his father: saue onely that he sacrificed and offered incense vpon aulters in hygh places

⁶ And Solomon sayde: Thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaut Dauid my father great mercie, when he walked before thee in trueth, in righteousnesse, and in plainnesse of heart with thee, and thou hast kept for him this great mercy, that thou hast geuen him a sonne to sit on his seate, as it is come to passe this day

⁹ Geue therfore thy seruaunt an vnderstanding heart to iudge thy people, that I may discerne betweene good & bad: For who is able to iudge this thy so mightie a people

⁹ Geue therfore thy seruaunt an vnderstanding heart to iudge thy people, that I may discerne betweene good & bad: For who is able to iudge this thy so mightie a people ¹⁰ And this pleased the Lorde well that Solomon had desired this thing ¹¹ And God sayde vnto him: Thou hast not asked for thy selfe long lyfe, neither hast asked riches for thy selfe, nor hast asked the lyfe of thy enemies, but hast asked for thy selfe vnderstanding & discretion in iudgement ¹² Behold, I haue done according to thy wordes, lo I haue geuen thee a wyse & an vnderstanding heart, so that there was none lyke thee before thee, neither after thee shal any aryse lyke vnto thee

¹⁴ And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to kepe myne ordinaunces and my commaundementes, as thy father Dauid dyd walke, I will lengthen thy dayes

²³ Then sayde the king: The one sayth, this that is alyue is my sonne, and the dead is thyne: And the other sayth, nay: but thy sonne is the dead, and the liuing childe is myne ²⁴ And the king sayde: Bring me a sworde. And they brought out a sworde before the king

²⁸ And all they of Israel hearde of the iudgement which the king had iudged, and feared the king: for they sawe that the wysdome of God was in him to do iustice

²¹ And Solomon raigned ouer all kingdomes from the riuer vnto the lande of the Philistines, [euen] vnto the border of Egypt: and they brought presentes, and serued Solomon al the dayes of his life ²² And Solomons bread for one day was thirtie quarters of manchet flowre, & threescore quarters of meale ²³ Ten stalled oxen, and twentie out of the pastures, and a hundred sheepe, beside hartes, buckes, and wilde goates, and capons ²⁴ For he ruled in all the region on the other syde Euphrates, from Thiphsah to Azza, ouer al the kinges on the other syde the riuer: And he had peace with all his seruauntes on euery syde

²⁹ And God gaue Solomon wysdome and vnderstanding exceeding much, and a large heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shore ³⁰ And Solomons wysdome excelled the wysedome of all the children of the east countrey, and al the wisdome of Egypt ³¹ For he was wiser then al men, yea then Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda the sonnes of Mahol: And his name was spoken of throughout all nations on euery syde ³² And Solomon spake three thousande prouerbes: And his songes were a thousande and fiue ³³ And he spake of trees, euen from the Cedar tree that groweth in Libanon, vnto the Isope that springeth out of the wall: He spake also of beastes, of foules, of wormes, and of fishes ³⁴ And there came of all nations to heare the wysdome of Solomon, and from all kinges of the earth, which had heard of his wysdome

³ Thou knowest howe that Dauid my father could not buyld an house vnto the name of the Lorde his God for the warres which were about him on euery syde, vntill the Lorde put them vnder the soles of his feete

¹² And the Lorde gaue Solomon wisedome as he promysed him: And there was peace betweene Hiram and Solomon, & they two were consedered together

¹ And it came to passe, that in the foure hundred & fourescore yere, after the childre of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, and in the fourth yere of the rayne of Solomon vpon Israel, & in the moneth Zif, which is the second moneth, he began to build the house of the Lorde ² And the house which king Solomon built for the Lorde, was threescore cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and thirtie cubites hie ³ And he made a porche before the temple of the house, which was twentie cubites long, after ye breadth of the house, and ten cubites brode, [euen] in the fore front of the house ⁴ And in the house he made windowes, broade without, and narow within ⁵ And by the wall of the house he made chambers round about [euen] in the walles of the house round about the temple & the quier: and he made chambers round about ⁶ The neathermost chamber was fiue cubites broade, & the middle was sixe cubites broade, & the third was seuen cubites broade: For without in the wall of the house he made restes round about that [the beames of the chambers] shoulde not be fastened in ye walles of the house ⁷ And the house was built of stone, made perfect alredye before it was brought thyther: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, either any toole of iron heard in the house while it was in buylding ⁸ The doore of the middle chamber was in the ryght syde of the house: and men went vp with wineding stayres into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third ⁹ And so he built the house, and finished it: and he roofed the house vaultly with beames of Cedar tymber ¹⁰ And then he built chambers to all the temple fiue cubites heyght, & they were ioyned to the house with beames of Cedar ¹¹ And the word of the Lorde came to Solomon, saying ¹² Concerning the house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walke in myne ordinaunces, and execute my lawes, and kepe all my commaundementes to walke in them: then wyll I make good vnto thee my promise which I promysed Dauid thy father ¹³ And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel ¹⁴ Solomon therefore built the house, and finished it ¹⁵ And seeled the walles of the house within with boordes of Cedar tree: euen fro the pauement of the house vnto the roofe did he seele the walles of it within with Cedar tree: and boorded the floore of the house with planckes of firre

¹ But Solomon was buildinge his owne house thirteene yeres, and finished it all ² And he built ye house in the wood Libanon, an hundred cubites long, and fiftie cubites broade, and thirtie cubites hie: And it stoode vpon foure rowes of Cedar pillers, and Cedar beames were layde vpon the pillers ³ And the roofe was Cedar aboue vpon the beames that laye on the pillers, euen 45 beames in fifteene rowes ⁴ And there were windowes in three rowes, and the windowes were one against another three folde ⁵ And al the doores with the syde postes & the vpper postes were foure square, and had windowes one against another three folde ⁶ And he made a porche by the pillers [that bare vp the house] fiftie cubites long, and thirtie cubites broade, and the porche was before those and the other pillers: for there was a thicke tree set before them ⁷ Then he made a porche to sit & iudge in, euen a porche of iudgmet, seeled with Cedar throughout all the pauementes ⁸ And his house wherein he dwelt had an other hall, more inward then the porche, of lyke worke: And then Solomo made an house for Pharaos daughter ( whom he had taken to wyfe) lyke vnto the fashion of the porche ⁹ And all these were of the best stones, hewed after a measure and sawed with sawes within and without, from the foundation vnto the beames that laye aboue, after the measure, and euen so on the out syde toward the great court ¹⁰ And the foundation was layde vpon rich stones, and that very great stones, whereof some were ten cubites, and some eyght cubites ¹¹ And aboue were riche stones, squared after a certayne rule, and couered with Cedar ¹² And the great court round about, was with three rowes of hewed stones, and one rowe of Cedar planckes, after the maner of the inner court of the house of the Lorde, and of the porche of the temple ¹³ And king Solomon sent and fet one Hiram out of Tyre ¹⁴ A widowes sonne of ye tribe of Nephthalim, his father being a man of Tyre: Which Hiram was a craftesman in brasse, ful of wisedome, vnderstanding, and cunning, to worke all maner of worke in brasse: And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his worke ¹⁵ For he cast two pillers of brasse of eyghteene cubites hie a peece: & a string of twelue cubites did compasse either of them about

⁶³ And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offringes whiche he offered vnto the Lorde [to wit] twentie and two thousande oxen, and an hundred and twentie thousande sheepe: And so the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lorde

⁶⁵ And Solomon helde that same time an hye feast, and all Israel with him, a verie great congregation, euen from the entring in of Hemath vnto the riuer of Egypt before the Lorde our God seuen dayes, and seuen dayes, euen foureteene dayes

² The Lorde appeared to Solomon the second time, as he appeared vnto him at Gibeon

⁴ And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, in purenes of heart and in righteousnes, to do all that I haue commaunded thee, and wilt kepe my statutes, and my lawes

⁴ And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, in purenes of heart and in righteousnes, to do all that I haue commaunded thee, and wilt kepe my statutes, and my lawes ⁵ Then will I stablishe the seate of thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer, as I promised to Dauid thy father, saying: Thou shalt not be without a ma vpon the seate of Israel

¹⁵ (And this is the summe whiche king Solomon raysed for a tribute when he buylded the house of the Lorde, and his owne house, and Millo, and the wall of Hierusalem, and Hazor, and Megeddo, and Gazer ¹⁶ For Pharao king of Egypt went vp, and toke Gazer and burnt it with fire, and slue the Chanaanites that dwelt in the citie, and gaue it for a present vnto his daughter, Solomons wyfe ¹⁷ And Solomon buylt Gazer & Bethhoron the neather ¹⁸ And Baalath and Thamar in the wildernesse in the lande ¹⁹ And all the treasure cities that Solomon had, and cities for his charettes, and cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired, and woulde buyld in Hierusalem, in Libanon, and in all the lande of his dominion

²⁴ And Pharaos daughter came vp out of the citie of Dauid, vnto her house which Solomon had buylt for her: and then dyd he also buylde Millo

³ And Solomon declared vnto her all her questions, so that there was not one thing hyd from the king whiche he expounded not vnto her ⁴ And the queene of Saba considered al Solomons wysdome, & the house that he had buylded ⁵ And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruauntes, the order of his ministers & their apparell, & his drinke, and his burnt sacrifices that he offred in the house of the Lorde: and she was astonied ⁶ And she sayde vnto the king: It was a true word that I hearde in myne owne land of thy sayinges, & of thy wisdome ⁷ Howbeit I beleued it not, till I came & sawe it with myne eyes: And beholde, the one halfe was not tolde me: for thy wysdome and prosperitie exceedeth the fame which I hearde of thee ⁸ Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy seruauntes whiche stand euer before thee, and heare thy wysdome

²³ And so king Solomon exceeded al the kinges of the earth both in ryches and wysdome

²³ And so king Solomon exceeded al the kinges of the earth both in ryches and wysdome ²⁴ And all the worlde resorted to Solomon, to heare his wysdome which God had put in his heart

²⁴ And all the worlde resorted to Solomon, to heare his wysdome which God had put in his heart ²⁵ And brought him euery man his present, vessels of siluer, & vessels of golde, rayment, harnesse, and sweete odours, and horses, and mules, yere by yere ²⁶ And Solomon gathered together charettes and horsemen: and he had a thousande and foure hundred charettes, and twelue thousande horsemen, whom he bestowed in the charet cities, and with the king at Hierusalem ²⁷ And the king made siluer in Hierusalem as plenteous as stones, and Cedar as plenteous as the wilde fegge trees that growe aboundauntly in the fieldes ²⁸ Also Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and fine linnen: the kinges marchauntes receaued the linnen for a price ²⁹ A charet came vp out of Egypt for sixe hundred sicles of siluer, that is, one horse for an hundred and fiftie: And euen so for al the kinges of the Hethites, and for the kinges of Siria, did they bring them out through their handes

¹ But king Solomo loued many outlandishe women, & the daughter of Pharao, and women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonites, & Hethites

⁴ For it came to passe when Solomon was olde, his wyues turned his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of Dauid his father

⁶ And Solomon wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and folowed not the Lorde perfectly, as dyd Dauid his father

⁹ And the Lorde was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned fro the Lord God of Israel which had appeared vnto him twyse

³⁴ I will not take the whole kingdome out of his hand: But I will make him chiefe all his lyfe long for Dauid my seruauntes sake whom I chose: because he kept my commaundementes and my statutes

³⁸ And if thou hearken vnto all that I commaunde thee, and wilt walke in my wayes, and do that is right in my sight, that thou kepe my statutes and my commaundementes as Dauid my seruaunt dyd, then will I be with thee, and buyld thee a sure house, as I buylt for my seruaunt Dauid, and will geue Israel vnto thee

³ And he walked in all the sinnes of his father which he had done before him, and his heart was not perfect with the Lorde his God, as the heart of Dauid his father

⁵ Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and turned from nothing that he commaunded him all the dayes of his lyfe, saue onely in the matter of Urias the Hethite

¹⁴ But the hie places were not put downe: Neuerthelesse Asa his heart was perfect with the Lorde all his dayes

⁴³ And he walked in all the wayes of Asa his father, and bowed not therefrom, but dyd that whiche was right in the eyes of the Lorde: Neuerthelesse the high places were not taken out of the way: for the people offred and burnt incense yet in the high places

³ But the high places were not taken away: for the people offred and burnt incense yet vpon the high places

⁴ Neither were the high places taken a way: For as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places

⁴ Saue that the high places were not put a way: For the people offered and burnt incense still on the high places

³⁵ But the high places were not put away, for the people offered and burnt incense still in the high places: he built the higher doore of the house of the Lorde

⁴ He put away the high places, & brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and all to brake the brasen serpent that Moyses had made: For vnto those dayes the children of Israel dyd burne sacrifice to it: and he called it Nehustan

²² If ye say vnto me, we trust in the Lorde our God: Is not that he whose hygh places and whose aulters Hezekia hath put downe? and hath sayd to Iuda and Hierusalem, ye shall worship before this aulter here in Hierusalem

³ I beseche the, O Lorde, remember now how I haue walked before thee in trueth and with a perfect heart, & haue done that whiche is good in thy sight. And Hezekia wept sore

⁷ And Dauid dwelt in the castell [Sion] and therefore they called it the citie of Dauid

¹ So they brought in the arke of God, and set it in the middest of the tent that Dauid pitched for it: And they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offringes before God ² And when Dauid had made an end of offring the burnt offringes and peace offringes, he blessed the people in the name of the Lorde

³⁹ And Zadoc the priest & his brethren the priestes were before ye tabernacle of the lord, in the hie place that was at Gibeon

⁴ Go and tell Dauid my seruaunt, thus sayth the Lorde, Thou shalt not buylde me an house to dwell in ⁵ For I haue dwelt in no house sence the day that I brought out the children of Israel, vnto this day: but haue gone from tent to tent, and from one habitation to an other ⁶ And whersoeuer I haue walked with all Israel, spake I euer one worde to any of the iudges of Israel, whom I commaunded to feede my people, saying, Why haue ye not buylt me an house of Cedar tree

² And Dauid sayde to Ioab and to the rulers of the people: Go ye and number Israel from Beerseba to Dan: & bring it to me, that I may knowe the number of them

⁵ And gaue the summe of the number of the people vnto Dauid: And all they of Israel were a thousande thousand and an hundred thousande men that drue sworde: and Iuda was foure hundred threescore and ten thousande men that drue sworde ⁶ But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them: For the kinges word was abhominable to Ioab

²⁹ For the tabernacle of the Lorde which Moyses made in the wildernesse, & the aulter of burnt offring, were at that season in the hill of Gibeon

¹² And the Lord shall geue thee wysdom and vnderstanding, and shall geue thee commaundementes for Israel, that thou mayst kepe the lawe of the Lorde thy God

¹² And the Lord shall geue thee wysdom and vnderstanding, and shall geue thee commaundementes for Israel, that thou mayst kepe the lawe of the Lorde thy God ¹³ For then thou shalt prosper, euen when thou takest heede and fulfillest the statutes and lawes which the Lorde charged Moyses with for Israel: Plucke vp thyne hearte therfore, & be strong, dread not, nor be discouraged

²³ But Dauid toke not the number of them vnder twentie yeres, because the Lorde saide he would encrease Israel lyke vnto the starres of the skye ²⁴ And Ioab the sonne of Zaruia began to number: but he finished it not, because that there fell wrath for it against Israel, neither was the number put into the cronicles of king Dauid

³ But God saide vnto me: thou shalt not builde an house for my name, because thou hast ben a man of warre, and hast shed blood ⁴ Moreouer the Lorde God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father, to be king ouer Israel for euer: for in Iuda would he choose a captaine, & of the householde of Iuda is the house of my father, & among the sonnes of my father he had a lust to me to make me king ouer all Israel ⁵ And of all my sonnes (for the Lorde hath geuen me many sonnes) he hath chosen Solomon my sonne, to sit vpon the seate of the kingdome of the Lorde in Israel ⁶ And he saide vnto me: Solomon thy sonne he shall builde me an house and courtes: I haue chosen him to be my sonne, and I will be his father

⁸ Nowe therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lorde, and in the audience of our God, keepe and seeke for all the commaundementes of the Lorde your God, that ye may enioy a good lande, and leaue inheritaunce for your children after you for euer ⁹ And thou Solomon my sonne, knowe thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a pure heart and with a wyllyng minde: For the Lord searcheth al heartes, and vnderstandeth all the immaginations of thoughtes: And if thou seeke him, he wyll be founde of thee: but if thou forsake him, he wyll cast thee of for euer

⁹ And thou Solomon my sonne, knowe thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a pure heart and with a wyllyng minde: For the Lord searcheth al heartes, and vnderstandeth all the immaginations of thoughtes: And if thou seeke him, he wyll be founde of thee: but if thou forsake him, he wyll cast thee of for euer

¹ And Dauid the king saide vnto all the congregation: God hath specially chosen Solomon my sonne which is yet young & tender, & the worke is great: for the house shall not be for man, but for the Lorde God

¹² And richesse and honour come of thee, and thou raignest ouer all, and in thyne hande is power & strength, and in thyne hand it is to make great and to geue strength vnto all ¹³ And nowe our God we thanke thee, and prayse thy glorious name ¹⁴ But who am I? and what is my people? that we should enforce our selues to geue these thinges so willingly? But all thinges come of thee, & of that which we receaued at thyne hand, we haue geuen thee

¹⁹ And geue vnto Solomon my sonne a perfect heart, to keepe thy commaundementes, thy testimonies, & thy statutes, and to do all, and builde the house, for the which I haue made prouision

²⁴ And all the lordes and men of power, and all the sonnes of king Dauid, submitted them selues, & were vnder king Solomon

³ And so Solomon and all the congregation with him went to the hie place that was at Gibeon: for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moyses the seruaunt of the Lorde made in the wyldernesse

⁶ And Solomon gat vp there before the Lord, to the brasen aulter that was before the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt sacrifices vpon it ⁷ And the same night did God appeare vnto Solomon, and said vnto him: Aske what I shall geue thee ⁸ And Solomon saide vnto God: Thou hast shewed great mercie vnto Dauid my father, and hast made me to raigne in his steade ⁹ Now therefore, O Lorde God, let thy promise which thou madest vnto Dauid my father, be true: For thou hast made me king ouer a people which is lyke the dust of the earth in multitude ¹⁰ Wherefore geue me now wysedome and knowledge, that I may be able to go in and out before this people: for who els can iudge this people that is so great

¹⁰ Wherefore geue me now wysedome and knowledge, that I may be able to go in and out before this people: for who els can iudge this people that is so great ¹¹ And God saide to Solomon: Because this was in thyne heart, and because thou hast not asked treasure and riches, and honour, & the liues of thyne enemies, neither yet long lyfe, but hast asked wysedome and knowledge for thy selfe, to iudge my people ouer which I haue made thee king ¹² Wysedome and knowledge is graunted vnto thee, and I will geue thee treasure, & riches, and glory: so that among the kinges that haue ben before thee, or after thee, none was or shalbe lyke thee

¹ And Solomon determined to buylde an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome ² And Solomon tolde out threescore and ten thousande men to beare burthens, and fourescore thousand men to hewe stones in the mountayne, and three thousand and sixe hundred to ouersee them ³ And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying: As thou diddest deale with Dauid my father, and diddest send him Cedar wood to buyld him an house to dwell in [euen so deale with me: ⁴ Behold I buylde an house for the name of the Lorde my God, to offer vnto him holy thinges, & to burne sweete incense, and to set shewe bread before him continually, to offer burnt sacrifices of the morning and euening on the Sabbath dayes, in the firste day of euery newe moone, and in the solempne feastes of the Lorde our God: for it is an ordinaunce to be continually kept of Israel

¹² And Hiram sayde moreouer: Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel whiche made heauen & earth, & that hath geuen Dauid the king a wise sonne, and one that hath descretion, prudence, and vnderstanding, to buyld an house for the Lord, and a palace for his kingdome

⁵ And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twentie and two thousande oxen, and an hundred and twentie thousande sheepe: and so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God

⁷ Moreouer, Solomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lorde, for there he offred burnt offringes: & the fat of the peace offringes, because the brasen aulter which Solomon had made, was not able to receaue the burnt offringes, and the meate offringes, and the fat ⁸ So at the same time Solomon kept a feast of seuen dayes, and al they of Israel with him, an exceeding great congregation, euen from the entring in of Hamath vnto the riuer of Egypt ⁹ And in the eyght day they made an assemblie: For they kept the dedication of the aulter seuen dayes, & the feast seuen dayes ¹⁰ And the three and twentie day of the seuenth moneth he let the people depart into their tentes glad and mery in heart, for the goodnesse that the Lorde had shewed to Dauid and to Solomon, and to Israel his people

¹⁷ And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, to do all that I haue commaunded thee, and shalt obserue my statutes and my lawes ¹⁸ Then will I stablishe the seate of thy kingdome, according as I made the couenaunt with Dauid thy father, saying: Thou shalt not be without a man to be ruler in Israel ¹⁹ But and if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes & my commaundementes which I haue set before you, and shall go and serue other gods, and worship them

¹¹ And Solomon brought the daughter of Pharao out of the citie of Dauid, into the house that he had buylded for her: For he sayde, My wyfe shall not dwel in the house of Dauid king of Israel, for it is holy, because that the arke of the Lorde is come vnto it

⁵ And she sayde to the king: The saying which I hearde in myne owne lande of thyne actes and of thy wisdome, is true ⁶ I beleued not the wordes of them, vntill I came and myne eyes had seene it: And beholde, the one halfe of thy wysdome was not tolde me: for thou exceedest the same that I hearde ⁷ Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy seruauntes which stand before thee alway, and heare thy wysdome ⁸ Blessed be the Lorde thy God, whiche had lust to thee, to set thee [king] on his seate, that thou mightest be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loueth Israel [and hath delyte] to make them continue euer, therefore made he thee king ouer them, to do right and equitie

³ And the Lorde was with Iehosaphat, because he walked in the olde wayes of his father Dauid, and sought not Baalim

³ And the Lorde was with Iehosaphat, because he walked in the olde wayes of his father Dauid, and sought not Baalim ⁴ But sought the Lorde God of his father, and walked in his commaundementes, and not after the doinges of Israel

⁴ But sought the Lorde God of his father, and walked in his commaundementes, and not after the doinges of Israel ⁵ And the Lorde stablished the kingdome in his hande, & all they that were in Iuda brought him presentes, so that he had aboundaunce of richesse and honour

¹ And Iehosaphat had aboudaunce of richesse and honour, and ioyned affinitie with Ahab

² And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde, in all poyntes as did Dauid his father

³² And the number of the burnt offringes which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten oxen, an hundred rammes, & two hundred sheepe: which were all for the burnt offering of the Lorde ³³ And there were dedicated sixe hundred oxen, and three thousand sheepe ³⁴ And the priestes were to fewe to flay al the burnt offringes: but their brethren the Leuites did helpe them, till they had ended the worke, & vntil the priestes were sanctified: For the Leuites were purer hearted to be sanctified, then the priestes ³⁵ And therto ye burnt offringes were many, with the fat of the peaceoffringes, & the drinke offringes, that belong to the burnt offring: And so the seruice parteyning to the house of the Lorde, was finished

²² And Hezekia spake comfortablie vnto all the Leuites that had good knowledge [to sing] vnto the Lorde: and they did eate throughout that feast seuen dayes long, and offered peace offringes, and thanked the Lorde God of their fathers ²³ And the whole assemblie toke counsel to do so other seuen dayes: & they helde those seuen dayes with gladnesse ²⁴ For Hezekia king of Iuda, did geue to the congregation a thousand young oxen, and seuen thousand sheepe: And the lordes gaue out to the congregation a thousand oxen, & ten thousand sheepe, and a great number of the priestes were sanctified

²⁴ For Hezekia king of Iuda, did geue to the congregation a thousand young oxen, and seuen thousand sheepe: And the lordes gaue out to the congregation a thousand oxen, & ten thousand sheepe, and a great number of the priestes were sanctified ²⁵ And all the congregation of Iuda, with the priestes & Leuites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, & the straungers that came out of the lande of Israel, & that dwelt in Iuda, reioyced ²⁶ And there was great gladnesse in Hierusalem: For since the time of Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel, there was no such [ioy] in Hierusalem

¹⁷ Neuerthelesse, the people dyd offer stil in the high places, howbeit vnto the Lorde their God only

² And he dyd that whiche was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the wayes of Dauid his father, and bowed neither to the right hand nor to the left

¹¹ But they aunswered vs with these wordes, and saide: We are the seruauntes of him that is God of heauen and earth, and builde the house that was builded of olde and many yeres ago, which the great king of Israel builded, and set vp

²⁵ And thou Esdras, after the wysdome of thy God that is in thyne hande, set iudges and arbitrers [by my aucthoritie] to iudge all the people that is beyond the water, euen all such as know the law of thy God: and them that knowe it not, those see that ye teache

¹⁴ Shoulde we returne to breake thy commaundementes, and ioyne in affinitie with the people of these abhominations? wouldest not thou be angry towardes vs till thou hadst consumed vs, so that there should be no remnaunt, nor any escaping

³ In the third yere of his raigne, he made a feast vnto all his princes & seruauntes: and the mightie men of Persia and Media, the captaynes also and rulers of his countreys were before hym

¹³ Where as they are conuersaunt among them that abhorre the light, they know not his way, nor continue in his pathes ¹⁴ The murtherer ryseth early and killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe ¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer wayteth for the darkenesse, & sayth, There shall no eye see me: and disguiseth his face ¹⁶ In the darke they digge through houses, whiche they marked for them selues in the day time: they knowe not the light ¹⁷ The morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death

⁶ Therfore Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite aunswered, and sayde: [Considering that] I am young, and ye be men of age, I was afrayde, and durst not shewe foorth my mynde ⁷ For I thought thus within my selfe: It becommeth old men to speake, and the aged to teache wysdome ⁸ Euery man no doubt hath a mynde, but it is the inspiration of the almightie that geueth vnderstanding

¹⁴ For God speaketh once or twise, and yet man vnderstandeth it not ¹⁵ In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes

⁶ There be many that say, who wyll shewe vs [any] good? O God lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs

¹⁷ O God, thou hast hearde the desire of the afflicted: [and] thou wylt settle their heart

⁶ (13:5b) I wyll syng to God, because he hath rewarded me

² Euen he that leadeth an vncorrupt life: and doth the thyng that is iust, and speaketh the trueth from his heart

²⁰ (18:19) God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me ²¹ (18:20) Because I had kept the wayes of God: and had not wickedly shronke from my God ²² (18:21) For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me ²³ (18:22) And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse ²⁴ (18:23) Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght

⁴ He asked life of thee, and thou gauest him long dayes: euen for euer and euer

²³ Loue God all ye his saintes: [for] God preserueth them that are faythfull, and rewardeth most aboundauntly the proude doer

³ My heart was hotte within me, and whyle I was thus musyng the fire kyndled: and [at the last] I spake with my tongue

¹ O God geue vnto the kyng thy iudgementes: and thy ryghteousnesse vnto the kynges sonne ² [Then] he wyll iudge thy people accordyng vnto iustice: and thy afflicted accordyng to equitie

² [Then] he wyll iudge thy people accordyng vnto iustice: and thy afflicted accordyng to equitie

⁴ He wyll iudge the afflicted amongst the people: he wyll saue the children of the poore, and subdue the oppressour

⁷⁰ He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes ⁷¹ As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce

⁷¹ As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce ⁷² So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart: and guided them by the discretion of his handes

¹¹ For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection ¹² O God of hoastes: blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee

¹⁶ I wyll satisfie hym with a long lyfe: and I wyll cause hym to see my saluation

⁷ Returne O my soule vnto thy rest: for God hath rewarded thee

¹⁷ (119:1) Rewarde thy seruaunt, let me lyue: and I wyll kepe thy worde

³⁴ (119:2) Geue me vnderstanding, & I wil kepe thy law: yea I wyll kepe it with my whole heart

⁷³ (119:1) Thy handes haue made me and fashioned me: geue me vnderstanding, and I will learne thy comaundementes

¹⁴⁴ (119:8) The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is euerlastyng: make me to vnderstande [them] and I shall lyue

⁸ God wyll preserue thy goyng out and thy commyng in: from this tyme foorth for euermore

¹² If thy chyldren wyll kepe my couenaunt and my testimonies whiche I wyll teache them: their chyldren also shall sit vpon thy throne for euermore

¹¹ And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me: and the night shalbe day for me

³ For if thou cryest after wisdome, and cryest for knowledge ⁴ If thou seekest for her as for siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures ⁵ Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lorde, and finde the knowledge of God ⁶ For the Lorde geueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstandyng ⁷ He stirreth vp health for the righteous: and defendeth them that walke vprightly ⁸ That they may kepe the right path: and he preserueth the way of such as do serue him with godlinesse ⁹ Then shalt thou vnderstande righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equitie, yea and euery good path

² For they shal prolong the dayes and yeres of thy lyfe, and bryng thee peace

¹³ Well is hym that findeth wysdome, and getteth vnderstandyng ¹⁴ For the marchaundise of it, is better then the marchaundise of siluer, and the gayne therof [is better] then golde ¹⁵ She is more worth then pretious stones: and all the thinges that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her ¹⁶ In her right hande is long life, and in her left hande riches and honour

¹⁶ In her right hande is long life, and in her left hande riches and honour ¹⁷ Her wayes are pleasaunt wayes, and all her pathes are peaceable ¹⁸ She is a tree of lyfe to them that lay holde vpon her: and blessed is he that kepeth her fast

⁸ The wisdome of the circumspect man, is to vnderstande his way: but the foolishnesse of the vnwise, deceaueth

⁸ The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym

¹⁶ To haue wisdome in possession, is better then to haue golde: and to get vnderstandyng, is rather to be chosen then to haue siluer

³¹ Age is a crowne of worshyp, yf it be founde in the way of ryghteousnesse

¹² The eare to heare, the eye to see: the Lorde hath made them both

²¹ My sonne, feare thou the Lorde and the kyng, and kepe no company with them that slide backe [from his feare:

⁸ Be not hastie to go to lawe: lest haplye thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbour hath confounded thee

¹³ And dyd applie my mynde to seke out & searche for knowledge of all thynges that are done vnder heauen: Such trauayle and labour hath God geuen vnto the children of men, to exercise them selues therin

¹⁶ I communed with myne owne heart, saying: lo I am come to great estate, and haue gotten more wisdome then all they that haue ben before me in Hierusalem

¹¹ Wysdome with inheritaunce is good, yet better is it with them that without care may beholde the sunne

¹⁹ Wysdome geueth more courage vnto the wyse, then ten mightie men of the citie

¹⁵ And in the citie there was founde a poore man, but he was wyse, whiche with his wysdome deliuered the citie, yet was there no body that had any respect to such a simple man ¹⁶ Then sayd I, wysdome is better then strength: Neuerthelesse, a simple mans wysdome is despised, and his wordes are not hearde ¹⁷ A wyse mans counsayle that is folowed in scilence, is farre aboue the crying of a captaine among fooles ¹⁸ For wysdome is better then harnesse: but one sinner alone destroyeth muche goodnesse

¹⁶ Wo be vnto thee O thou lande, whose kyng is but a chylde, and whose princes are early at their bankettes

² The spirite of the Lorde shall rest vpon him, the spirite of wysdome and vnderstanding, the spirite of counsaile and strength, the spirite of knowledge and of the feare of the Lorde ³ And shall make hym of deepe iudgement in the feare of God: For he shall not geue sentence after the thing that shalbe brought before his eyes, neither reproue after the hearing of his eares ⁴ But with righteousnesse shal he iudge the poore, and with equitie shall he refourme the simple of the worlde, and he shall smyte the worlde with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his mouth shall he slay the vngodly

¹⁶ Libanus is not sufficient to minister fire to his offeryng, and all the beastes therof are not inough for one sacrifice

¹⁵ Will a woman forget her owne infant, and not pitie the sonne of her owne wombe? And though they do forget, yet wyll I not forget thee

²⁴ And it shalbe, that or euer they call, I shall aunswere them, whyle they are yet but thinking howe to speake, I shal heare them

⁶ Then sayde I: O Lorde God, I can not speake, for I am yet but young

²⁰ Upon this complaynt I thought thus by my selfe: Is not Ephraim my deare sonne? Is he not the childe with whom I haue had all my mirth and pastime? For since the tyme that I first comuned with hym, I haue hym euer in remembraunce: therfore my heart driueth me vnto hym, gladly and louyngly wyll I haue mercie vpon him, saith the Lorde

²⁶ When I hearde this, I came agayne to my selfe, I sawe like as I had ben waked out of a sweete sleepe

³ The dragons geue their young ones sucke with bare brestes: but the daughter of my people is cruel, like the Estriches in the wildernesse ⁴ The tongues of the sucking chyldren cleaue to the roofe of their mouthes for very thyrst: the young chyldren aske bread, but there is no man that geueth it them

²¹ He chaungeth the times and seasons, he taketh away kinges, he setteth vp kinges: he geueth wysdome vnto the wyse, and vnderstanding to those that vnderstande

⁴⁷ The king aunswered Daniel, & sayde: Of a trueth your God is a God of gods, and the Lorde of kinges, and a reuealer of secretes, seing thou couldest reueale this secrete

²⁵ Thou shalt be cast out from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beastes of the fielde: with grasse shalt thou be fed like oxen, thou must be wet with the deawe of the heauen, yea seue times shall passe ouer thee, till thou knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men, & geueth it to whom he list

³² And thou shalt be cast out of mens companie, thy dwelling shalbe with the beastes of the fielde: so that thou shalt eate grasse like oxen, and seuen times shal passe ouer thee, vntil thou knowest that the hyghest hath power vpon the kingdome of men, and geueth it vnto whom it pleaseth hym

¹ King Balthasar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and dranke wine before the thousande

¹¹ There is a man in thy kingdome that hath the spirite of the holy Gods within him: & in the dayes of thy father, light, and vnderstanding, & wysdome, like the wysedome of the gods, was founde in hym, whom the king Nabuchodonozor thy father, the king [I say] thy father made chiefe of the wyse men, soothsayers, Chaldeans, and wysardes

¹⁸ O thou king, the most high god gaue vnto Nabuchodonozor thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour, & glorie

²¹ He was driuen out from the sonnes of men, his heart was made lyke the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses, they fed him with grasse lyke Oxen, and his body was wet with the deawe of the heauen, till he knewe that the most hie God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appoynteth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth

⁸ Howe shall I geue thee vp Ephraim? [howe] shal I deliuer thee Israel? howe shall I make thee as Adama? [howe] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentinges are kindled within me

⁶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lorde, and bowe my selfe to the hye God? Shall I come before him with burnt offeringes, and with calues of a yere olde ⁷ Hath the Lorde a pleasure in many thousandes of Rammes, or innumerabic streames of oyle? shall I geue my first borne for myne offences, and the fruite of my body for the sinne of my soule

⁷ Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: If thou wylt walke in my wayes, & keepe my watch, thou shalt iudge my house, & kepe my courtes, and I wyll geue thee place among these that stande here

²⁰ But whyle he thought these thinges, beholde, the Angell of the Lord appeared vnto hym in a dreame, saying: Ioseph, thou sonne of Dauid, feare not to take [vnto thee] Marie thy wife, for that which is conceaued in her, is of the holy ghost

¹³ When they were departed, beholde, the Angel of the Lord appeared to Ioseph in a dreame, saying: Aryse, & take the young chylde and his mother, and flee into Egipte, and be thou there, tyll I bryng thee worde. For it wyll come to passe, that Herode shall seke ye young chylde, to destroy hym

¹⁹ But when Herode was dead, beholde, an Angel of the Lorde appeared to Ioseph in a dreame, in Egipt, saying

¹¹ I baptize you in water vnto repentaunce: But he that shall come after me, is mightier then I, whose shoes I am not worthy to beare, he shall baptize you with the holy ghost, and with fire

¹⁴ But Iohn forbad hym, saying. I haue nede to be baptized of thee, and commest thou to me

³³ But rather, seke ye first the kyngdome of God, and his ryghteousnesse, and all these thynges shalbe ministred vnto you

⁷ Aske, and it shalbe geuen you: seke, and ye shall fynde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you ⁸ For he that asketh, receaueth: and he that seketh, fyndeth: and to hym that knocketh, it shalbe opened

⁴² The Queene of the south shall ryse in the iudgement, with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth, to heare the wisdome of Solomon. And beholde, in this place [is] one greater then Solomon

²⁵ But whyle men slept, his enemye came & sowed tares among the wheate, and went his way

³ And sayde. Ueryly I say vnto you: except ye turne, and become as litle chyldren, ye shall not enter into the kyngdome of heauen ⁴ Whosoeuer therfore shall humble hym selfe as this litle chylde, the same is ye greatest in the kingdome of heauen

²¹ And he sayth vnto her: what wylt thou? She saith vnto him: graunt, that these my two sonnes may syt, the one on thy ryght hande, and the other on the left, in thy kyngdome ²² But Iesus aunswered, and saide: Ye wote not what ye aske. Are ye able to drynke of the cuppe that I shall drynke of? and to be baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with? They say vnto hym: we are able

³⁷ Iesus sayde vnto hym: Thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy mynde

²¹ And whe a conuenient day was come, that Herode on his birth daye made a supper to the lordes, hye captaynes, and chiefe estates of Galilee

³⁶ He sayde vnto them: What woulde ye, that I shoulde do for you

³⁸ But Iesus sayde vnto them, Ye wote not what ye aske: Can ye drynke of the cuppe that I drynke of? and be baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with ³⁹ And they sayde vnto hym: that we can. Iesus sayde vnto them: ye shall in deede drynke of the cup that I drynke of, and with the baptisme that I am baptized withall, shall ye be baptized ⁴⁰ But to syt on my ryght hande, and on my left hande, is not myne to geue, but vnto them, for whom it is prepared ⁴¹ And when the ten hearde it, they began to disdaine at Iames and Iohn ⁴² But Iesus, when he had called them to hym, sayde vnto them: ye knowe, that they which seeme to beare rule among the Gentiles, raigne as Lordes ouer them: And they that be great among them, exercise aucthoritie vpon them ⁴³ Neuerthelesse, so shall it not be among you: but whosoeuer of you, wyll be great among you, shalbe your minister ⁴⁴ And whosoeuer of you wyll be the chiefest, shalbe seruaunt of all ⁴⁵ For the sonne of man also came not to be ministred vnto: but to minister, & to geue his lyfe, a raunsome for many ⁴⁶ And they came to Hierico: And as he went out of ye citie of Hierico with his disciples, and a great number of people, blynde Bartimeus the sonne of Timeus, sate by the hye wayes syde beggyng ⁴⁷ And when he hearde that it was Iesus of Nazareth, he beganne to cry, and say: Iesus, thou sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me ⁴⁸ And many rebuked hym, that he shoulde holde his peace: But he cryed the more a great deale, thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy on me ⁴⁹ And Iesus stoode styll, and commaunded hym to be called. And they called the blynde, saying vnto hym: Be of good comfort, ryse, he calleth the ⁵⁰ And he threwe away his cloke, & rose, and came to Iesus ⁵¹ And Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: what wylt thou that I do vnto thee? The blynde sayde vnto hym: Maister, that I myght see

²⁴ Therfore I say vnto you, what thynges so euer ye desyre when ye pray, beleue that ye receaue [them,] & ye shall haue [them]

²⁹ Iesus aunswered hym, the first of all the commaundementes is: Heare O Israel, The Lorde our God, is one Lorde ³⁰ And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy mynde, and with all thy strength. This is the first commaundement

¹⁵ For I wyll geue you a mouth, and wysedome, where agaynst, all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake nor resist

²⁰ For euery one that euyll doeth, hateth the lyght: neither commeth to the light, lest his deedes shoulde be reproued

³⁰ I can of mine owne selfe do nothing: As I heare I iudge, and my iudgemet is iuste, because I seke not myne owne wyll, but the wyll of the father whiche hath sent me

³ To hym the porter openeth, and the sheepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his owne sheepe by name, and leadeth them out ⁴ And when he hath sent foorth his owne sheepe, he goeth before them, and the sheepe folowe hym: for they knowe his voyce

⁹ I am the doore: by me yf any man enter in, he shalbe safe, and shall go in and out, and fynde pasture

¹³ And whatsoeuer ye aske in my name, that wyll I do, that the father may be glorified in the sonne ¹⁴ If ye shall aske any thing in my name, I wyll do it ¹⁵ If ye loue me, kepe my commaundementes

²¹ He that hath my commaundementes, and kepeth them, the same is he that loueth me: And he that loueth me, shalbe loued of my father, and I wyll loue him, and wyll shew myne owne selfe to hym

¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordayned you, to go, and bryng foorth fruite, and that your fruite shoulde remayne, that whatsoeuer ye aske of the father in my name, he may geue it you

⁴⁷ But Solomon buylt hym an house ⁴⁸ Howebeit, he that is hyest of al, dwelleth not in teples made with handes, as sayth the prophete ⁴⁹ Heauen is my seate, and earth is my footstoole. What house wyll ye buylde for me, saith the Lord? Or which is the place of my rest

²² And when he was put downe, he set vp Dauid to be their kyng, of whom he reported, saying: I haue founde Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after mine owne heart, which shall fulfyll all my wyll

³¹ Without vnderstandyng, couenaunt breakers, without naturall affection, truice breakers, vnmercyfull

²⁶ Lykewyse, the spirite also helpeth our infirmities. For we knowe not what to desire as we ought: but ye spirite maketh great intercession for vs, with gronynges, which can not be expressed

²⁶ Lykewyse, the spirite also helpeth our infirmities. For we knowe not what to desire as we ought: but ye spirite maketh great intercession for vs, with gronynges, which can not be expressed ²⁷ And he that searcheth the heartes, knoweth what is the meanyng of the spirite: for he maketh intercession for the saintes accordyng to the pleasure of God ²⁸ For we knowe yt all thinges worke for the best, vnto them that loue God, to them which also are called of purpose

³² Which spared not his owne sonne, but gaue hym for vs all: Howe shall he not with hym also geue vs all thynges

⁷ Geue to euery man therfore his dutie, tribute to whom tribute, custome to whom custome, feare to whom feare, honour to whom honour [belongeth.

²⁴ But vnto them which are called both of the Iewes and Grekes [we preache] Christe the power of God, and the wisedome of God

³⁰ And of hym are ye in Christe Iesu, whiche of God is made vnto vs wisedome, and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption

¹⁴ But the naturall man perceaueth not the thynges of ye spirite of God, for they are foolyshenesse vnto hym: Neither can he knowe [them] because they are spiritually discerned ¹⁵ But he that is spirituall, discerneth all thynges, yet he hym selfe is iudged of no man

²² Whether it be Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, either the worlde, either lyfe, or death, whether they be present thinges, or thynges to come, all are yours ²³ And ye are Christes, and Christe (is) Gods

³ But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him

¹⁶ To the one part [are we] the sauour of death, vnto death: and vnto the other part [are we] the sauour of lyfe vnto lyfe. And who is meete vnto these thynges

⁵ Not that we are sufficiet of our selues to thynke any thyng as of our selues: but our ablenesse is of God

⁵ Therfore, I thought it necessarie to exhort the brethren, to come beforehand vnto you, and to prepare your good blessyng promised afore, that it myght be redy, so that it be as a blessyng, and not a defraudyng

¹¹ That in all thynges ye may be made riche into all singlenesse, which causeth through vs, that thankes are geuen vnto God

²⁰ Unto him that is able to do exceeding aboundauntly aboue all that we aske or thynke, accordyng to the power that worketh in vs

¹⁷ Wherfore be ye not vnwise, but vnderstandyng what the wyll of the Lord is

⁸ For God is my recorde howe greatly I long after you all, in the bowels of Iesus Christe

¹⁰ That ye maye discerne thynges that differ, that ye maye be pure, and without offence, tyll the day of Christe

¹ If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christe, yf any comfort of loue, if any felowship of ye spirite, yf any compassion and mercie

³ In whom are hyd all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge

⁸ For bodyly exercise profiteth litle: but godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges, hauing promise of the lyfe that is nowe, and of that which is to come

³ Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, riotous, fierce, despisers of them which are good

¹⁴ But strong meate belongeth to them that are perfecte, euen those whiche by reason of vse, haue their wittes exercised to discerne both good and euyll

⁵ If any of you lacke wisdome, let him aske of God, that geueth to all men indifferentlie, and casteth no man in the teeth: and it shalbe geuen hym

⁵ If any of you lacke wisdome, let him aske of God, that geueth to all men indifferentlie, and casteth no man in the teeth: and it shalbe geuen hym ⁶ But let hym aske in fayth, nothyng waueryng: For he that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the wynde, and caryed with violence

¹² Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: For when he is tryed, he shall receaue the crowne of lyfe, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue hym

⁵ Hearken my deare beloued brethren. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, such as are riche in fayth, and heyres of the kyngdome, which he promised to them that loue hym

¹⁷ But the wisdome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaseable, gentle, and easie to be entreated, full of mercie and good fruites, without iudgyng, without simulation

² Ye lust, and haue not: Ye enuie, and haue indignation, and can not obtayne: Ye fyght and warre, ye haue not, because ye aske not ³ Ye aske and receaue not, because ye aske amisse, euen to consume it vpon your lustes

¹⁷ But who so hath this worldes good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from hym: howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym

¹⁹ We loue hym, for he loued vs first ²⁰ If a man say, I loue God, & yet hate his brother, he is a lyer: For how can he yt loueth not his brother whom he hath seene, loue God who he hath not seene

² By this we knowe that we loue the chyldren of God, when we loue God, and kepe his commaundementes ³ For this is the loue of God, that we kepe his commaundementes, and his commaundementes are not greeuous

¹⁴ And this is the trust that we haue in hym: that yf we aske any thyng accordyng to his wyll, he heareth vs ¹⁵ And yf we knowe that he heare vs, whatsoeuer we aske: we know that we haue ye petitions that we desire of hym