1 Chronicles 21 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now when an adversary stood up in Israel and persuaded David to number Israel, ² and king David said to Joab and the chiefs of the army, Go, number Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and let me know the number of them, ³ Joab replied, The Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as there are. and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. They are all servants to my lord. Why doth my lord seek this? May it not be a cause of trespass to Israel? ⁴ But the king's determination prevailed against Joab, so he went forth, and having passed through all Israel, and come to Jerusalem, ⁵ he gave David an account of the review of the people, and the whole number of the men of Israel who drew a sword, w r as eleven hundred thousand, and the children of Juda were four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew a sword. ⁶ But he did not number Levi and Benjamin among them. Because the king's word prevailed over Joab, ⁷ and the thing was evil in the sight of God, therefore he smote Israel. ⁸ When David said to God, I have sinned greatly in doing this, now therefore take away, I beseech thee, this wickedness of thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly ⁹ the Lord spoke to Gad, the seer, saying, ¹⁰ Go, and speak to David, and say, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things, chuse for thyself one of them that I may do it to thee ¹¹ So Gad went to David and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Chuse for thyself ¹² either three years of famine; or three months to flee before thy enemies while the sword of thy enemies is destroying thee; or the sword of the Lord and pestilence for three days throughout the land, while an angel of the Lord is making havock in all the inheritance of Israel. Now therefore consider What answer shall I make to him who sent me? ¹³ Thereupon David said to Gad, Very hard indeed to me are all the three. Let me however fall into the hands of the Lord, for his tender mercies are exceeding great. But let me not fall into the hands of men. ¹⁴ So the Lord sent a pestilence through Israel, and there fell of the Israelites seventy thousand men. ¹⁵ And when God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and he was making havock, the Lord looked and relented at the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, Let this suffice thee. Stay thy hand. Now the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite. ¹⁶ And when David raised his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between the earth and heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, he and all the elders being clad in sackcloth, fell on their faces, ¹⁷ and David said to God, Was it not I who ordered the numbering of the people? I indeed am the sinner. It is I who committed the sin. But as for this flock, what have they done? Lord my God, Let thy hand be upon me, and on my father's house, and not on this thy people, O Lord, to destruction. ¹⁸ Thereupon the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up according to the word which Gad spoke in the name of the Lord. ²⁰ And when Orna turned and saw the king and his four sons with him, with attendants [now Orna was threshing wheat] ²¹ upon David's approach to Orna, Orna came out of his threshing floor and made obeisance to David with his face to the ground. ²² And David said to Orna, Grant me the place of this threshing floor of thine, that I may build thereon an altar to the Lord; grant it to me for its worth in money, that the plague may be stayed from the people. ²³ And Orna said to David, Take it for thyself; and let my Lord the king do what is good in his sight. Behold I have given these young bulls for a whole burnt offering, and that plough for wood, and this corn for a sacrifice. Of all these things I make a gift. ²⁴ And David said to Orna, By no means: for I must buy them for their worth in money. For I cannot take what are thine for the Lord, to offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord at free cost. ²⁵ So David gave Orna for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. ²⁶ And having built there an altar to the Lord, he offered up the offerings of homage and thanksgiving, and cried to the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to him by fire from heaven upon the altar of the whole burnt offering, which consumed the whole burnt offering. ²⁷ Then the Lord spoke to the angel and he sheathed his sword. ²⁸ When David saw that the Lord hearkened to him at the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite, and that he had sacrificed there ²⁹ at that time, though the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar for whole burnt offerings were at that time at the high place of Gabaon ³⁰ now he could not go before it to inquire of God, for that would not have been answerable to the haste in which he was, on account of the sword of the angel of the Lord

¹ Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, when one among them over persuaded David, saying, Go number Israel and Juda. ² When the king said to Joab, the captain general of his army, who was with him, Go, I pray thee through all the tribes of Israel and Juda, from Dan to Bersabee, and review the people, and let me know the number of them, ³ Joab said to the king, The Lord God add to the people, how many soever they be, a hundred fold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it! But why doth my lord the king set his mind upon this? ⁴ But the word of the king prevailed against Joab, and the officers of the army. So Joab and the chiefs of the army before the king, went out to review the people, Israel. ⁵ And they crossed the Jordan, and encamped at Aroer on the right of the city, in the valley of Gad and Eliezer. ⁶ Then they went to Galaad, and to the land of Thabason, which is Adasai, and came to Danidan and Oudan; and having gone round Sidon, ⁷ and come to Mapsar of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Evites, and the Chananites, they came to the south of Juda to Bersabee. ⁸ So when they had gone round through all the land, they came to Jerusalem, at the end of nine months and twenty days. ⁹ And Joab laid before the king the amount of the review of the people. And that of Israel was eight hundred thousand fighting men: and the men of Juda were five hundred thousand warriors. ¹⁰ And David's heart smote him after this numbering of the people: and David said to the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now therefore, Lord, forgive, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly. ¹¹ And when David arose in the morning, a word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, the seer, saying, ¹² Go and speak to David, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Three things I am ready to bring upon thee, chuse therefore for thyself one of them, that I may do it to thee. ¹³ So Gad went to David, and delivered the message, and said, Chuse what shall be done to thee. Shall three years of famine come on all thy land? Or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies while they pursue thee? Or shall there be three days of pestilence in thy land? Now therefore consider; and see what answer I shall make to him who sent me. ¹⁴ Thereupon David said to Gad, I am in great straits on every side. Pray let me fall into the hands of the Lord; for very many and great are his mercies. But let me not fall into the hands of men. ¹⁵ Now when David chose for himself the pestilence, it was the time of the wheat harvest. And the Lord sent a pestilence through Israel, from the morning till the hour of dining. And the slaughter began among the people, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee, seventy thousand men. ¹⁶ But when the angel of God stretched forth his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord was moved with compassion at the calamity, and said to the angel who was making havock among the people, It is enough. Stay thy hand. Now the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite. ¹⁷ And when David saw the angel who was smiting the people, he addressed the Lord, and said, Behold here am I who have transgressed! But as for this flock, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be upon me, and upon my father's house. ¹⁸ Then Gad came to David that day, and said to him, Go up and erect an altar for the Lord, on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up according to the word of Gad, as the Lord had commanded him. ²⁰ And when Orna looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming up to him, he went out and bowed down to the king, with his face to the ground, ²¹ and said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To purchase of thee this threshing floor to build an altar to the Lord, that the slaughter among the people may be stayed. ²² Then Orna said to David, Let my lord the king take, and offer to the Lord what is agreeable to him. Behold here are cattle for a whole burnt offering, and the carts and the yokes of the cattle for fuel. ²³ All these Orna hath given to the king. And may the Lord thy God, said Orna addressing the king, bless thee. ²⁴ But the king said to Orna, No. Let me only purchase them of thee for their full value; for I cannot offer to the Lord my God a whole burnt offering which costeth me nothing. So David purchased the threshing floor, and the cattle, for fifty shekels of silver. ²⁵ And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered whole burnt offerings and peace offerings. Now Solomon afterwards enlarged this altar; for at first it was small. Thus the Lord was entreated for the land, and the slaughter was stopped from Israel.

²⁰ And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achab king of Israel that he may go up and fall at Remmath Galaad? And when one spoke in this manner and another in that, ²¹ there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him. ²² And the Lord said to him, How? And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt deceive him and actually prevail. Go and do so.

⁶ And it came to pass that on the same day, when lo! the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came with them; ⁷ and the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan in reply said to the Lord, Having gone round the earth, and roved the whole of it under heaven, I am come here. ⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast thou harboured in thy mind any thing against my servant Job? For there is not like him on the earth, a man unblameable, true, pious, abstaining from every thing evil. ⁹ And Satan in reply said before the Lord, Doth Job worship the Lord for nothing? ¹⁰ Hast thou not made a hedge about all that he hath, abroad and at home, and about all that belong to him round about, and blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his cattle on the earth? ¹¹ But put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath, he will indeed openly renounce thee. ¹² Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold all that he hath I deliver into thine hand; but himself thou must not touch. So Satan went out from the Lord,

¹ Again on the day when the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

⁴ In reply to which Satan said to the Lord, Skin for skin. All that a man hath he will give for his life. ⁵ Only put forth thy hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, he will indeed openly renounce thee. ⁶ Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold I deliver him up to thee, only preserve his life.

¹ Then the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood at his right hand to oppose him.

³ Whereupon the tempter coming to him, said, If thou art Son of God, command these stones to become loaves.

⁵³ Now while he was saying these things to them, the Scribes and the Pharisees took occasion to urge him vehemently, and provoke him to speak of many things,

³¹ Then the Lord said to Simon, Simon! behold Satan hath earnestly requested to have you in his power, that he may sift you as wheat:

² When they were at supper [the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot son of Simon to deliver him up,]

³ Upon which Peter said, Ananias, Why hath Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back a part of the price of the land?

²⁴ and let us observe one another, in order to excite love and good works,

¹³ Let no one when tempted say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, neither doth he tempt any one.

¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. "Now is come salvation and the power and reign of our God and the authority of Christ himself; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, he who accused them before our God day and night;

¹³ and when thy herds, and thy flocks, are multiplied, and thou hast silver and gold in abundance, and all thy possessions are multiplied, ¹⁴ be not elated in heart, nor forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; ¹⁵ who conducted you through that great and frightful wilderness, where there were biting serpents and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought a fountain of water for thee out of a flinty rock; ¹⁶ who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thou didst not know, and which was not known by thy fathers, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days. ¹⁷ Say not in thy heart, My own power, and the strength of my own hand bath procured me this great wealth:

¹ So all the children of Israel set out, and the congregation assembled as one man from Dan to Bersabee, and from the land of Galaad, before the Lord at Massepha.

²⁰ And all Israel, from. Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the Lord.

¹⁰ to take the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Juda, from Dan to Bersabee.

¹¹ This therefore is the counsel which I would give; Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, like the sand which is on the sea shore for multitude; and let thy presence go forth in the midst of them.

² When the king said to Joab, the captain general of his army, who was with him, Go, I pray thee through all the tribes of Israel and Juda, from Dan to Bersabee, and review the people, and let me know the number of them, ³ Joab said to the king, The Lord God add to the people, how many soever they be, a hundred fold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it! But why doth my lord the king set his mind upon this? ⁴ But the word of the king prevailed against Joab, and the officers of the army. So Joab and the chiefs of the army before the king, went out to review the people, Israel.

¹⁵ Now when David chose for himself the pestilence, it was the time of the wheat harvest. And the Lord sent a pestilence through Israel, from the morning till the hour of dining. And the slaughter began among the people, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee, seventy thousand men.

²⁵ [Omitted]

²³ But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the Lord said, he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. ²⁴ When Joab the son of Saruia, began to number the people, though he did not finish it, there was wrath for it on Israel, so that the number was not set down in the journal of king David.

⁵ therefore they determined to make proclamation, throughout all Israel, from Bersabee to Dan, that they might come and keep the passover, to the Lord God of Israel, at Jerusalem, because a multitude had not done it according to the scripture.

²⁵ But Ezekias did not make a suitable return for the favour conferred on him, but his heart was lifted up, so there was wrath against him, and against Juda and Jerusalem. ²⁶ Thereupon Ezekias humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them, during the days of Ezekias.

²³ A man's pride will bring him low: but the Lord will gloriously support the humble.

⁷ Indeed that I might not be too much elated by the astonishing greatness of these revelations, there was given me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much elated.

⁹ Then Abimelech sent for Abraham and said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? Have we in any respect sinned against thee, that thou shouldst bring upon me and upon my kingdom this great sin? Thou hast done to me what no one should do.

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou hast brought upon them this great sin?

⁹ When they had passed through the valley of grapes, and viewed the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites from going to the land which the Lord gave them; ¹⁰ and the anger of the Lord was kindled that day, and he sware saying,

¹¹ May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you as he hath promised you!

²⁴ Do not so my sons; for the reports which I hear are not good, that the people cannot serve God.

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¹³ Be of good courage and let us act valiantly for our people and for the cities of our God, and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

¹⁴ May the Lord add to you more and more; to you and to your children

²⁸ In the multitude of a nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of a people is the destruction of a prince.

¹⁵ Heap evils on the vainglorious of the earth.

¹⁹ and thy seed would have been as the sand, and the issue of thy bowels as the dust of the ground. Still however thou shalt not be utterly cut off; nor shall thy name perish from before me.

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the males.

³ Joab said to the king, The Lord God add to the people, how many soever they be, a hundred fold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it! But why doth my lord the king set his mind upon this? ⁴ But the word of the king prevailed against Joab, and the officers of the army. So Joab and the chiefs of the army before the king, went out to review the people, Israel. ⁵ And they crossed the Jordan, and encamped at Aroer on the right of the city, in the valley of Gad and Eliezer. ⁶ Then they went to Galaad, and to the land of Thabason, which is Adasai, and came to Danidan and Oudan; and having gone round Sidon, ⁷ and come to Mapsar of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Evites, and the Chananites, they came to the south of Juda to Bersabee. ⁸ So when they had gone round through all the land, they came to Jerusalem, at the end of nine months and twenty days.

⁴ as a king is absolute; and who can say to him, What dost thou?

¹⁸ But even though he do not, be it known to thee, king, that we cannot serve thy gods, nor will we worship the image which thou hast set up.

²⁹ In reply to which Peter and the apostles said, We must obey God rather than men.

⁹ And Joab laid before the king the amount of the review of the people. And that of Israel was eight hundred thousand fighting men: and the men of Juda were five hundred thousand warriors.

²³ But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the Lord said, he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.

⁴⁷ But the Levites of the tribe of their father's house, were not reviewed among the Israelites: ⁴⁸ for the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹ See that thou review not the tribe of Levi, nor take an account of them among the children of Israel.

²⁷ And when Abenner returned to Chebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak to him, and watching an opportunity, smote him there in the groin, and he died, for the blood of Asael the brother of Joab.

¹⁵ and in the letter he wrote, saying, Set Ourias in the front of the hottest battle, and retire from him, that he may be smitten and die. ¹⁶ So in disposing the guards against the city, Joab stationed Ourias in the place where he knew there were men of valour. ¹⁷ And the men of the city sallied out, and fought with Joab, and some of the people of David's servants fell, and Ourias the Chittite died also. ¹⁸ Then Joab sent and told David all the circumstances of the battle, ¹⁹ which were to be delivered verbally to the king. And he gave a charge to the messenger, saying, When thou hast finished telling the king all the circumstances of the battle, ²⁰ if it should happen that the king's anger rise, and he should say to thee, Why did you approach so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the top of the wall? ²¹ Who smote Abimelech son of Jerobaal, son of Ner? Did not a woman throw a piece of a millstone on him from the top of the wall, so that he died at Thamasi? Why did you approach the wall? Then thou shalt say, Thy servant Ourias the Chettite is also dead.

⁹ But as it dropped out and fell, therefore when Joab said to Amessai, art thou well my brother? and with his right hand took hold of Amessai's beard to kiss it, ¹⁰ Amessai did not attend to the sword which was in Joab's hand. So Joab smote him with it into the belly, and his bowels gushed out on the ground, so that he did not repeat the blow. And while he was dying, Joab and Abessa, his brother, pursued after Sabee, son of Bochori,

²⁴ When Joab the son of Saruia, began to number the people, though he did not finish it, there was wrath for it on Israel, so that the number was not set down in the journal of king David.

¹ But the children of Israel committed a great trespass. They set apart for themselves some of the Anathema. Achar son of Charmi, son of Zambri, son of Zara, of the tribe of Juda, had taken some of what was devoted, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel;

⁵ and the men of Gai slew of them about thirty six men, and pursued them from the gate, and drove them from the steep. Whereupon the heart of the people was dismayed, and became like water;

¹³ Arise, hallow the people, and order them to hallow themselves, against to-morrow. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, The Anathema is among you. You cannot stand before your enemies, until you remove the Anathema from among you.

¹⁶ Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this which you have committed in the presence of the God of Israel, to turn away this day from the Lord, having built for yourselves an altar that you may apostatize from the Lord? ¹⁷ Is the sin of Phogor a small matter to you? Because we have not been cleansed from it even to this day, though there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord; ¹⁸ are you therefore now turned away from the Lord? For the consequence will be, if you this day apostatize from the Lord, there will be to-morrow wrath against all Israel. ¹⁹ Now if the land of your possession be too small for you, come over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord is pitched, and take a possession among us, and do not become apostates from God, nor revolt from the Lord by building for yourselves an altar apart from the altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰ Behold when Achar, son of Zara, committed a trespass in regard to the Anathema, was there not wrath against all the congregation of Israel, so that he perished not alone for his sin? ²¹ In reply to this the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, said to the chiliarchs of Israel, ²² The Lord God is our God, and God himself our God hath seen, and Israel themselves may determine. If through apostacy we have trespassed in the sight of the Lord, let him not this day deliver us. ²³ Or if we have built an altar for ourselves, to apostatize from the Lord our God, or to offer thereon a sacrifice of whole burnt offerings, or to offer thereon a sacrifice of thanksgiving, let the Lord make inquisition. ²⁴ Indeed from a sacred regard to this matter we have done this, saying, That your children may not hereafter say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord God of Israel? ²⁵ The Lord hath made the Jordan a boundary between us and you; so that you have no portion in the Lord. And so your children may make our children strangers, that they may not worship the Lord, ²⁶ we therefore determined to act in this manner; to build this altar, not for the purpose of homage offerings, nor for sacrifices;

²⁷ And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the deed which David had done appeared evil in the sight of the Lord;

¹ In the days of David there was a famine three years, year after year successively; whereupon David applied to the Lord, and the Lord said, On Saul and on his house be the iniquity, by the death of his descendants, because he put to death the Gabaonites.

¹⁴ And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan, and the bones of them who were crucified, in the land of Benjamin, on the one side, in the tomb of his father Kis. And when they had done all that the king commanded, God, after that, hearkened to the land.

¹ Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, when one among them over persuaded David, saying, Go number Israel and Juda.

⁵ as David had done what was right in the sight of the Lord, and had not deviated all the days of his life from all that he commanded him.

¹⁴ So the Lord sent a pestilence through Israel, and there fell of the Israelites seventy thousand men.

⁷ and Jacob's sons came from the plain. And when the men heard, they were stung to the quick; and it was exceedingly painful to them, that he had brought dishonour on Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, and it should not pass so.

¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, It is of no avail to thee, because thou hast not kept my command which the Lord commanded thee. Till now the Lord had prepared thy kingdom over Israel for ever:

²¹ Then Saul said, I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm; because my life hath been precious in thy sight, at the very time when I was led astray by folly, and egregiously mistaken.

¹³ Then David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord hath put away thy sin. Thou shalt not die.

¹³ As for me where could I hide my dishonour? And with regard to thyself, thou wouldst be like one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, speak I pray thee to the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.

¹⁰ And David's heart smote him after this numbering of the people: and David said to the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now therefore, Lord, forgive, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.

⁹ and said to them, What answer do you advise me to give to this people, who have spoken to me saying, Abate something of the yoke, which thy father laid upon us.

¹¹ For the sake of thy name therefore, Lord, pardon this sin of mine, for it is manifold;

⁵ I acknowledged my sin and did not conceal mine iniquity. I said, Against myself I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord, thereupon thou didst forgive the wickedness of my heart.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bersabe. Have mercy upon me, God, according to thy great compassion: and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out this my crime, ² wash me thoroughly from this iniquity of mine; and purify me from this my sin. ³ For I acknowledge my transgression; and my sin is continually before me.

¹³ Nevertheless acknowledge thine iniquity; that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and opened thy ways for strangers under every shady tree; and hast not hearkened to my voice, saith the Lord.

² take words with you and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not receive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, say to him, "We will render to thee the fruit of our lips.

¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming towards him, and saith, Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!

⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁹ Now heretofore in Israel, when any one went to consult God, he spoke thus, Come let us go to the Seer; for the people in former times called the prophet, Seer.

¹¹ And when David arose in the morning, a word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, the seer, saying,

²⁹ Now the rest of the acts of David, the first and the last, are written among the words of Samuel the seer, and in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Gad the seer,

¹² Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you have not believed, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, therefore you shall not lead this congregation into the land which I have given them.

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house. Because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Ourias the Chettite to be thy wife, ¹¹ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will raise up evils against thee out of thy own house; and I will take thy wives before thy eyes, and give them to thy neighbour, and he will lie with thy wives in the face of the sun. ¹² Thou indeed didst act secretly; but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the face of yonder sun.

²¹ and he said to the man of God who had come from Juda, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast disobeyed the command of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment, which the Lord thy God commanded thee, ²² but hast turned back and eaten bread and drunk water, in the place which he spoke to thee saying, Thou must not eat bread nor drink water, thy body shall not enter the sepulchre of thy fathers.

²⁹ For they hated wisdom and did not chuse the word of the Lord: ³⁰ nor would they attend to my counsels, but contemned my reproofs: ³¹ Let them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled with their own iniquity.

¹² for whom the Lord loveth he reproveth: and chastiseth every son whom he receiveth.

¹⁹ Whomsoever I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and reform.

²⁰ Hear my son, the instruction of thy father that thou mayst be wise in thy latter days.

²³ For the Lord will pass by to smite the Egyptians; and when he shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to smite.

¹⁰ And you shall eat the last year's crops, and the crops of the year before, and remove old stores out of the way of new.

¹⁷ and I will set my face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing you.

²⁵ I will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. ²⁶ In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you shall eat, but shall not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if for these things you will not hearken to me, but walk adversely before me, ²⁸ I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins. ²⁹ And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters also you shall eat:

³⁶ And upon those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pursueth. ³⁷ And brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies.

¹⁵ But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee:

²² The Lord smite thee with anxiety, and fever, and chilness, and restlessness, and blasting, and mildew, that they may pursue thee until they utterly destroy thee.

²⁵ May the Lord deliver thee up to slaughter before thine enemies, so that thou mayst go out one way to meet them, and flee seven ways from before them; and be a dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth;

²⁷ The Lord smite thee with the Egyptian boil in thy seat, and with wild fire, and with itching, so that thou canst not be cured.

³⁵ The Lord smite thee with a grievous boil on thy knees, and on thy legs, so that thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy feet to the crown of thy head.

⁵¹ And it shall devour the increase of thy cattle, and the products of thy land, so as not to leave thee corn, wine, oil, herds or flocks, until it hath destroyed thee, ⁵² and wasted thee in thy cities; until they have demolished thy high, and strong walls, in which thou hast placed thy confidence, throughout thy whole land. And when he shall afflict thee in thy cities which he hath given thee;

¹³ So Gad went to David, and delivered the message, and said, Chuse what shall be done to thee. Shall three years of famine come on all thy land? Or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies while they pursue thee? Or shall there be three days of pestilence in thy land? Now therefore consider; and see what answer I shall make to him who sent me. ¹⁴ Thereupon David said to Gad, I am in great straits on every side. Pray let me fall into the hands of the Lord; for very many and great are his mercies. But let me not fall into the hands of men.

¹ And the prophet Elias the Thesbite, who was of Thesbon in Galaad, said to Achab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain for years but by the word of my mouth.

¹ Elisha having spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go thou and thy family and sojourn where thou canst; for the Lord hath called for a famine against this land, and it is come upon the land for seven years;

³⁵ Accordingly in the night an angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when they rose early in the morning, behold all these were dead corpses.

¹⁵ And when God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and he was making havock, the Lord looked and relented at the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, Let this suffice thee. Stay thy hand. Now the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite. ¹⁶ And when David raised his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between the earth and heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, he and all the elders being clad in sackcloth, fell on their faces,

⁶ of the thing which walketh in darkness; nor of mischance and the demon of noon day.

¹⁶ For with the fire of the Lord all this land shall be tried, and all flesh with his sword. Many shall be the slain of the Lord!

¹² against every outlet by the wilderness destroyers are come: because the sword of the Lord devoureth from one end of the land to the other; there is no peace for any flesh.

¹⁶ the sword of which you are afraid shall find you in the land of Egypt; and the famine which you wish to avoid shall follow and overtake you in Egypt, and there you shall die.

⁶ [c] How long wilt thou hew down, sword of the Lord? How long will it be ere thou wilt rest? Return into thy scabbard, rest and be removed.

⁹ The victims of the sword are more beautiful than those slain by famine. These stalked about pierced through for want of the fruits of the field.

¹⁹ Or if I send a pestilence against that land, and pour out my wrath upon it with slaughter, with intent to destroy out of it man and beast, ²⁰ and Noe, Daniel and Job be therein; As I live, saith the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be left: they for their righteousness shall deliver only their own souls. ²¹ Yet thus saith the Lord, Though I send these my four severe judgments sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence, against Jerusalem to destroy out of it man and beast,

⁴⁹ So shall it be at the conclusion of this age. The angels will go forth and sever the wicked from among the righteous ⁵⁰ and cast them into the fiery furnace. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

²⁵ And indeed I tell you, There were many widows in Israel in die days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that there was a great famine over all the land;

²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory. And being gnawed by worms he died.

¹ And after this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding fast the four winds of the earth that no wind might blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. ² And I saw another angel coming up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered to hurt the earth and the sea, ³ saying, "Hurt not the earth nor the sea nor the trees until we seal the servants of our God on their foreheads."

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the God compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷ keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children s children to the third and fourth generation.

¹⁵ And when Elisha's servant arose early in the morning and went out, behold an army with horses and chariots surrounded the city, whereupon the servant said to him, my lord, what shall we do?

⁴ If we say, let us go into the city; there is a famine in the city and we must die there. And if we stay here we must die. Now therefore come, let us desert to the camp of Syria; if they take us alive we may live; and if they put us to death, we can but die.

⁹ there was there a prophet of the Lord, whose name was Oded, who went out to meet the army coming to Samaria, and said to them, Behold the anger of the Lord God of your fathers is against Juda, and he hath delivered them into your hands, and you have slain them with a rage which hath reached up to heaven.

¹¹ that all the nations of the kingdom know, that no man or woman who shall go to the king into the inner court without being sent for, hath any security for life: he only can be saved to whom the king shall stretch forth the golden sceptre. Now I have not been called to go to the king these thirty days.

¹⁶ Go and assemble the Jews who are at Susoi and fast for me. You must neither eat nor drink for three days; night nor day; and as for me, I and my maids will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king contrary to law, though perhaps I must die.

⁷ As for me, I through thine abundant mercy, will go to thy house: I will worship before thy holy temple, in thy fear.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bersabe. Have mercy upon me, God, according to thy great compassion: and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out this my crime, ² wash me thoroughly from this iniquity of mine; and purify me from this my sin.

¹³ But to thee, Lord, I, in my prayer, applied: it was a time of favour. God, in the multitude of thy mercy; in the truth of thy salvation, hearken to me.

¹⁶ Hear me, Lord, for thy loving kindness is good; according to thine abundant mercy, look down upon me.

⁵ for thou, Lord, art kind and gentle, and plenteous in mercy to all who invoke thee.

¹⁵ But thou, Lord God, who art merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth,

⁸ He is the Lord gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abundant in kindness;

⁷ Our fathers minded not thy wonders in Egypt, they did not remember the multitude of thy mercies. Though in coming up they were refractory at the Red sea,

⁴ Because there is forgiveness with thee, for thy name's sake,

⁷ Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him plenteous redemption.

¹⁰ A righteous man regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the mercies of the wicked are cruel.

⁷ They carry it on the shoulder and move on; but if they set it in its place, there it remaineth. It cannot move itself. And if any one cry to it, it cannot hear, nor can it save him from evils.

⁶ I was angry with my people: thou didst pollute my heritage, I delivered them into thy hand: and thou didst shew them no mercy. The yoke of the aged thou madest very heavy,

⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

⁷ [c] I recollected the loving kindness of the Lord; the mercies of the Lord in all those things which he retributeth for us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel. He dealeth with us according to his tender mercy and according to the abundance of his saving goodness,

¹⁵ Return from heaven and take a view from the house of thy sanctuary and thy glory. Where is thy zeal and thy majesty? Where the abundance of thy loving kindness and tender affections, that thou hast withdrawn thyself from us?

³² because he who hath humbled will have compassion, even according to the multitude of his mercies.

⁹ "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish.

² and he prayed to the Lord and said, Lord were not these my words, when I was yet in my own country? For which cause I attempted to flee to Tharsis. For I knew that thou art compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in kindness and relentest at evils.

¹⁸ Who is a God like unto thee, taking away iniquities, and passing by the transgressions of the remnant of his heritage? He hath not kept his anger in remembrance; because he delighteth in mercy;

² Lord, I have heard the report of thee and am terrified; I have considered thy works and am struck with amaze. In the midst of two living beings thou wilt be known; when the years draw nigh thou wilt be acknowledged; when the time is come thou wilt be pointed out: when my soul is troubled, in wrath remember mercy.

²⁷ Now is my soul troubled. What then? Shall I say, Father save me from this hour? But for this cause I came to this hour.

²³ For I am strained between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is by far the best;

³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³⁰ Whereupon Pharao arose by night he and all his attendants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt; for there was not a family in which there was not one dead.

⁴⁶ Whereupon they fell on their face. And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put therein fire from the altar, and throw incense on it, and carry it with all haste to the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and hath begun to slay the people. ⁴⁷ So Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran into the congregation; [Now the destruction among the people had already begun] and he threw on the incense, and made atonement for the people, ⁴⁸ and stood between the dead and the living; and the plague ceased. ⁴⁹ Now they who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on the account of Kore.

⁹ Now they who had died of the plague were twenty four thousand.

¹⁹ But among the men of Baithsamus, the sons of Jechonias did not receive it with joy; because they looked into the ark of the Lord, therefore he smote among them seventy men, including fifty of the men's chiliad. Thereupon the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted a very great blow on that community;

⁶ God was grieved that he had made man on the earth.

²⁸ Pray therefore for me to the Lord; and let the voices of God and the hail and fire cease and I will send you away and you shall stay no longer.

¹⁴ And when the Lord was moved with compassion to save his people,

¹⁸ still because the Lord raised up judges for them, therefore the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, because the Lord was mollified by their groaning, by reason of them who oppressed them and afflicted them.

¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord alone. Whereupon his heart relented at the distress of Israel.

¹⁶ But when the angel of God stretched forth his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord was moved with compassion at the calamity, and said to the angel who was making havock among the people, It is enough. Stay thy hand. Now the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.

¹⁸ Then Gad came to David that day, and said to him, Go up and erect an altar for the Lord, on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.

⁴ and he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness; and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and intreated that he might die, and said, Let the present suffice. Take, I beseech thee, O Lord, my life from me; for I am not better than my fathers

¹ At length Solomon began building the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, on mount Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David; in the place which David had prepared at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite.

³⁸ But he being merciful forgave their sins, and would not utterly destroy them. Yea, many a time did he turn away his wrath, and would not suffer all his wrath to blaze forth;

¹³ Return, Lord. How long shall it first be? And be pacified with thy servants.

¹² Go then to my place which was at Selo, where I caused my name to dwell at first; and see what I have done to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel.

⁷ When I speak to a nation or kingdom; that I will remove and destroy them; ⁸ if that nation turn from all their evils, I will relent in respect to the evils which I was resolving to bring on them. ⁹ And when I speak to a nation and kingdom that I will build up and replant: ¹⁰ If they do evil in my sight so as not to hearken to my voice, I indeed will alter my mind in respect to the good things which I spoke of doing for them.

⁹ Thou shalt be put to death, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord saying, "This house shall be like Selo, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitants." And all the people were assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.

¹⁸ Michaias the Morasthite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and he said to all the people of Juda, "Thus said the Lord, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be a desolation; and the mountain of this house, a grove of a forest:"

³⁷ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; but you would not! ³⁸ behold this house of yours is left desolate

⁴¹ Then he cometh the third time, and saith to them, Are you still asleep and taking rest? It is over. The hour is come. Behold the son of man is delivered into the hands of sinners.

²⁴ And when he put Adam out he caused him to dwell over against the garden of pleasure and stationed the Cherubim and the whirling flame of fire to keep the way to the tree of life.

¹⁹ Now the Angel of the Lord who marched before the camp of the Israelites had removed and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud had removed from the front and taken its station in the rear. ²⁰ And when it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and had taken its station; there came on a thick darkness and night intervened so that they did not intermix one with the other during that whole night.

⁵ Upon this Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the children of Israel,

²² At this they fell on their faces and said, God, the God of the spirits even of all flesh! If one man hath sinned, is the wrath of the Lord against the whole congregation?

³¹ Then God opened the eyes of Balaam; and when he saw the angel of the Lord standing opposite, in the way, with a drawn sword in his hand, he bowed down, and fell flat on his face.

¹³ Now when Joshua was by Jericho, he raised his eyes, and saw a man standing before him, with a drawn sword in his hand, upon which Joshua, advancing, said to him, Art thou one of us or of our enemies? ¹⁴ And he said to him, I am the captain general of the host of the Lord, just arrived. At this Joshua prostrated himself, with his face to the ground, and said to him, My lord, what dost thou command thy servant?

²⁷ yet as Achab was struck with compunction at this message on account of the Lord, and went away weeping; and as he had rent his clothes and girded sackcloth on his body and fasted; for he had put on sackcloth on the day he smote Nabuthi the Jezraelite; therefore when he went away,

¹⁷ Then Elisha prayed and said, Lord I beseech thee, open his eyes that he may see. Accordingly the Lord opened his eyes and he looked and lo! the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

¹ And when the king Ezekias heard them he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.

¹³ As for me, while they were raising troubles against me I cloathed myself with sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting. Though my prayer is to return into mine own bosom, ¹⁴ as I would a friend, as I would an own brother, so did I endeavour to conciliate. I humbled myself as one in mourning and deep sorrow.

⁶ When the word reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷ And proclamation was made and orders issued in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink water. ⁸ So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, saying,

³³ now therefore let me stay with thee instead of him as a slave to my lord, and let this son go up with his brothers [for how can I go up to my father and this son not with us?] that I may not see the evils which will befal my father.

⁵ thou shalt not worship them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation;

³² Now therefore, if thou indeed forgivest this their sin, forgive it: but if not: blot me out of thy book which thou hast written. ³³ And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever have sinned before me, them will I blot out of my book.

¹⁸ are you therefore now turned away from the Lord? For the consequence will be, if you this day apostatize from the Lord, there will be to-morrow wrath against all Israel.

⁸ But now, thus shalt thou say to my servant David, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I took thee from the sheepcot to be ruler over my people; over Israel;

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house. Because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Ourias the Chettite to be thy wife,

¹⁷ And when David saw the angel who was smiting the people, he addressed the Lord, and said, Behold here am I who have transgressed! But as for this flock, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be upon me, and upon my father's house.

¹⁷ Thereupon he said, Is not this the case? I saw all Israel dispersed on the mountains like a flock which hath no shepherd; and the Lord said, Is not the Lord, their God? Let every one return to his house in peace.

⁸ When David said to God, I have sinned greatly in doing this, now therefore take away, I beseech thee, this wickedness of thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly

¹¹ Thou hast delivered us up as sheep, to be devoured, and hast scattered us among the nations.

⁴ Against thee especially I have sinned; and in thy sight done this evil. So that thou must be justified in thine acts, and must overcome, when thou art judged.

¹⁴ Deliver me from blood guiltiness, God, the God of my salvation! That my tongue may with joy proclaim thy forgiving mercy.

¹ Of understanding. By Asaph. O GOD, why hast thou utterly cast off? Why is thy wrath extreme against the sheep of thy pasture?

⁷ That of thy children whom thou shalt beget, they will take some and make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians. ⁸ And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the word of the Lord which he spake: let there be, I pray, peace and righteousness in my days.

⁶³ that thou mayst remember and be ashamed, and never more be able to open thy mouth, because of thy confusion when I make a complete atonement for thee according to all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd exposeth his life for the sheep. ¹² But the hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he seeth the wolf coming leaveth the sheep and fleeth; and the wolf seizeth some and scattereth the sheep.

³ [for I even I myself wished the followers of Christ to be devoted to destruction,] for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

¹⁶ By this we know the love of God. Because he laid down his life for us, therefore we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹¹ So Gad went to David and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Chuse for thyself

¹⁵ And when God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and he was making havock, the Lord looked and relented at the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, Let this suffice thee. Stay thy hand. Now the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite.

²⁶ In the mean while an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go southward on the road which leadeth down from Jerusalem to Gaza, namely, the desert road. ²⁷ So he arose and went. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, a grandee of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was her high treasurer, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ and was on his return, was sitting in a chariot and reading the prophet Esaias. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and keep close to that chariot. ³⁰ So Philip ran close up and heard him reading the prophet Esaias. Whereupon he said, Dost thou understand what thou art reading? ³¹ To which he replied, How can I unless some one guide me? Then he invited Philip to come up and take a seat with him. ³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. ³³ In his humiliation his legal trial is taken away. Who will declare his manner of life? Because his life is taken from the earth. ³⁴ And the eunuch addressing Philip, said, Of whom, I pray thee, doth the prophet say this? Of himself or of some other person? ³⁵ Then Philip opened His mouth, and beginning with this scripture, told him the glad tidings of Jesus. ³⁶ And as they continued the journey, they came to a certain water. Whereupon the eunuch said, Behold! here is water. What hindereth my being baptized? ³⁷ And Philip said, If thou believest with thy whole heart, it may be done. To which he replied, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. ³⁸ Then he ordered the chariot to stop. And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. ³⁹ And when they came up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord conveyed Philip away. And the eunuch saw him no more. For he proceeded on in his journey rejoicing, ⁴⁰ and Philip was found at Azotus. And passing on he proclaimed the glad tidings in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

¹⁰ And Elisha sent a messenger to him saying, Go and wash thyself seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall return to thee and thou shalt be cleansed. ¹¹ Thereupon Naiman was inflamed with indignation and went away saying, Behold I thought he would at least come out and stand and call on the name of his God, or lay his hand on the place, and cure the leprous part. ¹² Are not Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Why may I not go and wash in them, and be cleansed? So he turned and went away in a rage. ¹³ But his servants drew near and said to him, Had the prophet enjoined thee some great thing, wouldst thou not do it? And wilt thou not, because he said, Wash and be clean? ¹⁴ Then Naiman went down, and when he had dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the prophet, his flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was cleansed.

⁵ His mother saith to the waiters, Do whatever he shall bid you.

⁶ Whereupon he trembling and in amaze, said, Lord, What wouldst thou have me do? And the Lord said to him, Arise and go to the city and it will be told thee what thou must do."

¹¹ Then there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under the fir tree, which is at Ephratha, in the land of father Joas, the Esdrite. Now Gideon, his son, was beating out corn in the wine

²³ And when Abigaia saw David, she hasted, and alighted from her ass, and fell on her face before David, and made obeisance to him on the ground,

¹⁸ Then Gad came to David that day, and said to him, Go up and erect an altar for the Lord, on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up according to the word of Gad, as the Lord had commanded him. ²⁰ And when Orna looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming up to him, he went out and bowed down to the king, with his face to the ground,

⁴⁸ and stood between the dead and the living; and the plague ceased.

⁸ went after the man; the Israelite, into the bed chamber, and ran them both through, the man, the Israelite, quite through, and the woman into her belly. Whereupon the plague stopped from the children of Israel.

²¹ and said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To purchase of thee this threshing floor to build an altar to the Lord, that the slaughter among the people may be stayed.

² And Achab spoke to Nabuthi, saying, Give me this vineyard of thine, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give thee another vineyard better than it; or if it seem good in thy sight, I will give thee money in exchange for thy vineyard, that I may have it for a kitchen garden.

⁴ I am a stranger and sojourner among you, give me therefore the possession of a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead from before me. ⁵ And the children of Chet answered and said to Abraham, ⁶ Nay, Sir, rather hearken to us. Thou art a king from God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury thy dead; for there is none of us who will deny thee his tomb to bury there thy dead.

¹⁴ So when the cart came into the field of Osea of Baithsamus, they set up there a great stone near it. Then cutting to pieces the wood of the cart, they offered the cows as a whole burnt offering to the Lord.

²² Then Orna said to David, Let my lord the king take, and offer to the Lord what is agreeable to him. Behold here are cattle for a whole burnt offering, and the carts and the yokes of the cattle for fuel. ²³ All these Orna hath given to the king. And may the Lord thy God, said Orna addressing the king, bless thee.

²¹ So he returned from following him, and he took the cattle which were yoked, and slew them, and boiled them with the implements of the cattle, and gave them to the people, and when they had eaten, he arose and went after Elias and waited on him.

²⁷ For the dill is not cleaned with a corn drag; nor is the wheel of a wain to turn round on the cummin; but with a rod are beaten out the dill; and cummin. [J] Yet with bread they will be eaten. ²⁸ For I, The I AM will not be angry with you forever, nor shall the voice of my severity destroy you.

⁸ Accordingly Anameel son of Salom my father's brother came to me in the court of the prison and said, Buy thee my field which is in the land of Benjamin, that at Anathoth, for the right of purchase is in thee as thou art the eldest. Upon this I knew that it was a word of the Lord,

²³ that of all which belong to thee I will not take from a thread to a shoe latchet; that thou mayest not say, I have made Abram rich;

¹³ he said to Ephron in the hearing of all the people of the land, As thou art here before me, hearken to me. Take of me in silver the value of the field and I will bury my dead there.

¹⁶ every male shall, three times in the year, appear before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse; at the festival of unleavened bread, and at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of tabernacles. Thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty handed. ¹⁷ Every one of you shall bring according to the ability of his hand, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee.

¹² and you profane it, by your saying, "The table of the Lord is polluted, "and when no regard was paid to the offerings laid thereon his meats, ¹³ you said, "These are because of affliction, "and though I rejected them, saith the Lord Almighty, yet you offered the torn, the lame and the sickly; if then you bring this sacrifice shall I accept such at your hands, saith the Lord Almighty, ¹⁴ when he is cursed, who is of ability and who hath a male in his flock and his vow upon him, and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupted thing? Because I am a great king, saith the Lord Almighty and1 my name is illustrious among the nations,

¹⁷ Render to none evil for evil. Be provident in regard to things good in the sight of all men.

²⁴ An altar of earth you shall make for me, and sacrifice thereon your whole burnt offerings and your offerings of thanksgiving, both your sheep and your young bulls in every place where I record my name. ²⁵ And I will come to thee and bless thee. And if thou makest for me an altar of stones; thou shalt not build it of hewn stones: for thou hast put thy workmanship on them and they are polluted.

⁴ Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morning Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; ⁵ and he sent out the young men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord.

²⁴ and there came forth a fire from the Lord which consumed what were on the altar, both the whole burnt offerings and the parcels of suet. And when all the people saw this, they were struck with consternation and fell on their faces;

²¹ And when he had done so, the angel of the Lord stretched out the point of the staff in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight.

²⁰ And when the flame ascended above the altar, up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. When Manoe and his wife saw this, they fell flat with their face to the ground.

⁸ and said to Samuel, Cease not to cry to the Lord thy God for us, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁹ Thereupon Samuel took a sucking lamb, and, with all the people, offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard him.

²⁴ And call ye on the name! of your gods, and I will invoke the name of the Lord my God. And the God who shall answer by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, The proposal thou hast made is fair.

³⁸ Thereupon fire from the Lord fell down out of heaven and consumed the whole burnt offering, with the split wood and the water in the trench and the stones, and licked up even the dust.

¹ And soon as Solomon finished his prayer the fire from heaven descended and consumed the whole burnt offerings with their sacrifices. Now the glory of the Lord filled the house

¹⁵ Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may proclaim thy praise.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: I am with him in affliction: I will deliver him and honour him.

⁹ Extol the Lord our God and worship on his holy hill: for the Lord our God is holy.

⁸ The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of the upright are acceptable to him.

²⁴ therefore it shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer them: and while they are yet speaking I will say, "What is the matter."

³ Cry to me and I will answer thee and shew thee great and marvellous things which thou hast not known.

¹² either three years of famine; or three months to flee before thy enemies while the sword of thy enemies is destroying thee; or the sword of the Lord and pestilence for three days throughout the land, while an angel of the Lord is making havock in all the inheritance of Israel. Now therefore consider What answer shall I make to him who sent me?

²⁰ And when Orna turned and saw the king and his four sons with him, with attendants [now Orna was threshing wheat]

²⁰ Bless the Lord, all ye his angels; ye mighty powers, who execute his word, on hearing the voice of his commands.

³⁰ There is an end of usurpation; turn back; tarry not. In the place where thou wast born, in thine own land I will judge thee.

⁵² Thereupon Jesus saith to him, Return thy sword to its place. For are all who have taken a sword to perish by a sword?

¹¹ Thereupon Jesus said to Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath. Must I not drink the cup which my Father hath given me?

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth on service on the account of them who are to be heirs of salvation?

¹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ² On the first day of the first month it being then new moon, thou shalt rear up the tabernacle of the testimony ³ and place therein the ark of the testimony and cover it with the veil. ⁴ Then thou shalt carry in the table and set in order the service thereof. And thou shalt carry in the candlestick and place on it the lamps: ⁵ and thou shalt set the golden altar, to burn incense, in its place before the ark; and thou shalt hang up the covering curtain at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁶ And the altar of homage offerings thou shalt place at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony. Then thou shalt surround the tabernacle and hallow all the things belonging to it round about. ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ [Omitted] ⁹ For this purpose thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all the things in it and hallow it and all its utensils 10 and they shall be holy. ¹⁰ And thou shalt anoint the altar of homage offerings and all its utensils and hallow the altar, and this altar shall be a holy of holies. ¹¹ [Omitted] ¹² Then thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony and wash them with water. ¹³ And thou shalt put the holy robes on Aaron and anoint him and hallow him that he may minister to me in the priest's office. ¹⁴ Thou shalt then bring forward his sons and clothe them with vestures ¹⁵ and anoint them as thou didst their father and they shall serve me as priests. And this unction of the priesthood shall belong to them forever throughout their generations. ¹⁶ So Moses did all these things. Whatever the Lord commanded him so did he. ¹⁷ Accordingly in the first month in the second year of their coming out of Egypt, at the new moon the tabernacle was reared up. ¹⁸ And when Moses had reared up the tabernacle he put on the capitals and put in the bars and set up the pilasters ¹⁹ and spread the curtains over the tabernacle and put over it the upper covering of the tabernacle as the Lord commanded Moses. ²⁰ Then taking the testimonies he put them in the ark, and put the staves under the ark, ²¹ and carried the ark into the tabernacle and hung up the covering of the veil and covered from view the ark of the testimony in the manner the Lord commanded Moses. ²² Then he placed the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, on the north side with out the veil of the tabernacle ²³ and set thereon the presence loaves before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses. ²⁴ Then he placed the candlestick in the tabernacle of the testimony on the south side of the tabernacle ²⁵ and put the lamps thereon before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. ²⁶ He then placed the golden altar in the tabernacle of the testimony over against the veil ²⁷ and burned thereon compound incense as the Lord commanded Moses. ²⁸ [Omitted] ²⁹ Then he placed the altar of homage offerings at the doors of the tabernacle ³⁰ [Omitted] ³¹ [Omitted] ³² [Omitted] ³³ and reared up the court around the tabernacle and the altar. And when Moses had finished all these works ³⁴ the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord ³⁵ so that Moses could not go into the tabernacle of the testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it and with the glory of the Lord the tabernacle was filled. ³⁶ Now when the cloud ascended from the tabernacle, the Israelites prepared to march with their baggage. ³⁷ But if the cloud did not ascend they did not prepare to march till the day when the cloud ascended. ³⁸ For there was a cloud on the tabernacle by day and in the night there was a fire on it in the sight of all Israel throughout all their journeyings.

⁴ So he arose and went to Gabaon because it was the highest and greatest to sacrifice there. And when Solomon had offered there a whole burnt offering of a thousand victims upon the altar of Gabaon, ⁵ the Lord appeared to him that night in a dream, and said to him, Ask for thyself any favour. ⁶ Thereupon Solomon said, Thou hast shewn great kindness to thy servant David my father. As he walked before thee in truth and righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee, thou therefore hast kept for him this great kindness to set his son on his throne as at this day. ⁷ Now therefore, Lord my God, as thou hast appointed me thy servant in the room of my father David, and I am but a little child and know not how to go out and come in, ⁸ and thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, an immense people which cannot be numbered, ⁹ give therefore to thy servant a heart to hear and to judge thy people righteously, and to discern between good and evil; for who can judge this thy people, ¹⁰ this great people which is so numerous? And it was well pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon made this request; ¹¹ therefore the Lord said to him, Because thou hast asked this of me, and hast not asked for thyself many days, nor riches, nor the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment, ¹² behold I have granted thy request; behold I have given thee a wise and understanding heart, so that before thee there hath not been one like thee, nor after thee shall there arise one like thee. ¹³ Moreover I have given thee what thou didst not ask, riches and glory; so that there hath not been among kings a man like thee. ¹⁴ And if thou wilt walk in my ways to keep my commandments and my statutes, as thy father David did, I will also multiply thy days. ¹⁵ And Solomon awoke, and behold it was a dream. Then he arose and came to Jerusalem, and stood before the altar which is in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in Sion, and offered whole burnt offerings; and having offered also offerings of thanksgiving, he made a great entertainment for himself and all his servants.

³⁹ And they left Sadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord at the high place at Gabaon,

³ and he and all the congregation went to the high place at Gabaon, at which place was the tabernacle of the testimony of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.

¹³ Then Solomon came to Jerusalem, from the high place at Gabaon, which is before the tabernacle of the testimony; and reigned over Israel.

¹² Now therefore, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul;

⁹ and David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?

¹² And David was that day afraid of God and said, How can I bring the ark of God home to me?

¹⁶ And when David raised his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between the earth and heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, he and all the elders being clad in sackcloth, fell on their faces,

²¹ withdraw thy hand from me: and let not the dread of thee overwhelm me with terror.

⁶ For at the bare recollection I shudder: and tortures rack my flesh.

¹⁵ For this cause I am to be awed at his presence; I am to meditate on and be in dread of him.

¹¹ whoever knoweth the power of thine anger, be taught, on the account of the terror of thy wrath,

¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with the dread of thee; for I am terrified at thy judgments.

²² Will you not fear me, saith the Lord, nor be struck with awe at the presence of me who have by an everlasting decree, made sand a boundary to the ocean, so that it shall not pass it. Though it be tossed with a tempest, it shall not prevail; though the waves thereof roar, they shall not overpass it.

⁷ [Omitted]

²⁸ As we have therefore received a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and holy awe: ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

¹⁷ And when I saw him I fell at his feet as one dead. Whereupon he laid his right hand on me, and said to me, "Fear not. I am the first and the last,

⁴ Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art perfect. For all the nations will come and worship before thee, For thy rules of rectitude are made manifest.