Daniel 3 Cross References - Thomson

¹ In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosar, the king made an image of gold; the height of it was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits. And having set it up in the plain of Deeira, in the province of Babylon, ² he sent for the presidents and the generals, and the governors, rulers and princes, and those in authority, and all the chiefs of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nabuchodonosar the king had set up. ³ And when the governors, the presidents, the generals, the leaders, the great princes, those in authority, and all the chiefs of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the image which Nabuchodonosar the king had set up, and were standing before the image, ⁴ the herald cried with a loud voice, To you peoples of different tribes and languages command is given; ⁵ whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sanibuk and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, prostrate yourselves and worship the golden image which Nabuchodonosar the king hath set up. ⁶ And whoever will not prostrate himself and worship, shall that very hour be cast into that furnace of fire, which is heating. ⁷ So when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and syrinx, and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, all the peoples, tribes and languages, falling prostrate, worshipped the golden image which nabuchodonosar the king had set up. ⁸ Then came certain Chaldeans, and stated to the king an accusation against the Jews, ⁹ "king, live forever! thou, king, ¹⁰ hast made a decree, that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery and all kinds of musical instruments; ¹¹ and who will not prostrate himself and worship the golden image, shall be cast into that furnace of fire which is heated. ¹² Now there are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, namely, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, who have not hearkened, king, to thy decree. They neither serve thy gods, nor do they worship the golden image which thou hast set up." ¹³ Upon this Nabuchodonosar in wrath and fury commanded to bring Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago: and when they were brought before the king, ¹⁴ Nabuchodonosar addressed them, saying, Is it true, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, that you do not serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? ¹⁵ Now therefore are you ready, when you hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk and of the psaltery and symphony and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall prostrate and worship the golden image which I have made? For if you do not worship you shall, that very hour, be cast into the furnace of fire, which is heated. And what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands? ¹⁶ In reply to this, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago said to the king Nabuchodonosar, We are at no loss to answer thee in respect to this matter. ¹⁷ For our God in heaven, whom we worship, is able to deliver us out of the furnace of fire which is heated, and he will deliver us, king, out of thy hands. 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. ¹⁹ At this Nabuchodonosar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed against Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago. And he ordered to heat the furnace seven fold, till it was hot as possible: ²⁰ and commanded some strong men to bind Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago, and cast them into the furnace of fire which was heated. ²¹ Then were these men bound, clad as they were with their Babylonish dress and with turbans and boots; and cast into the midst of the furnace of fire which was heated, ²² as the command of the king was peremptory. But though the furnace was heated to an excessive degree and ²³ these three men, Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago fell bound into the midst of the glowing furnace, yet they walked about in the midst of the flame, praising God and blessing the Lord. ²⁴ When Nabuchodonosar heard them singing praise he was amazed and starting up hastily said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? And when they said to the king, True, king, ²⁵ the king said, Here I see four men loose and walking about in the midst of the fire unhurt: And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of a god. ²⁶ Then Nabuchodonosar went near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and said, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, ye servants of the Most High God, come out and come hither. Upon which Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago came forth out of the midst of the fire. ²⁷ And the satraps and the generals and the governors and the mighty men of the king gathered round and viewed the men with astonishment; for the fire had not had any power over their body. Even the hair of their heads was not singed, nor were their mantles changed, nor a smell of fire on them. ²⁸ Then Nabuchodonosar the king addressing them, said, "Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, who hath sent his angel and delivered his servants. Because they have trusted in him and have altered the king's decree and delivered up their bodies to fire that they might not serve nor worship any god, but only their own God, ²⁹ therefore I issue this decree, "Every people, tribe, language, which shall utter any reproach against the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, shall be devoted to destruction and their houses to plunder: for there is no other god who can deliver in this manner." ³⁰ Then the king reinstated Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago in the province of Babylon, and advanced them in dignity and honoured them with a command over all the Jews in his realm.

²³ You shall not make for yourselves gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

² Thereupon Aaron said to them, Take off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters and bring them to me. ³ So all the people took off the gold ear-rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron; ⁴ and he received them at their hands and having made of them a molten bull he fashioned it with a graving tool and said, These are thy gods Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

³¹ So Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord! this people have committed a great sin and have made for themselves gods of gold.

²⁵ The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Thou shalt not covet the silver nor the gold thereof. Thou shalt not take any of it for thyself, lest thou be ensnared by it. Because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God,

²⁶ and the weight of the gold ear-rings, which he had requested, was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, exclusive of the necklaces, and bracelets, and the garments, and purple robes, which were on the kings of Madiam, and exclusive of the chains which were about the neck of their camels. ²⁷ And of this Gideon made an ephod, and set it up in his city in Ephratha; and all Israel went there a whoring after it, and it became a stumbling block to Gideon, and his house.

²⁸ Therefore the king took counsel and went and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, Rest satisfied in respect to your going up to Jerusalem. Behold these are thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and committed to the flames their gods. ¹⁸ Because they are not gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they destroyed them.

¹ After these things, in the days of Artaxerxes the same who reigned from India, over a hundred and twenty seven provinces,

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold; the workmanship of men's hands. ⁵ They have a mouth but cannot speak: though they have eyes, they cannot see. ⁶ Ears they have, but they cannot hear: having nostrils they cannot smell. ⁷ They have hands but they cannot feel: They have feet, but they cannot walk: nor can they utter a sound with their throat. ⁸ Let them who make them be like them; and all who have trusted in them.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are gold and silver; the workmanship of men's hands.

²⁰ For on that day men will cast to the bats their abominations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship vanities;

²² therefore thou wilt defile thine idols plated with silver, and cut to pieces those overlaid with gold, and scatter them like polluted water and cast them out as dirt.

¹⁹ Hath a carpenter when he hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him? ²⁰ for the carpenter chuseth a sound piece of timber and will inquire wisely, how he may place his image that it may not be moved. ²¹ Will you not know? will you not hear? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not known the foundations of the earth? ²² He it is, who occupieth the circuit of the earth; and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, who established the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to be dwelt in; ²³ who giveth chiefs as a nothingness to govern: and hath made the earth as a mere nothing. ²⁴ For they could not plant nor could they sow, nor could their root strike into the ground; he blew upon them and they withered, and a whirlwind will sweep them away like stubble. ²⁵ Now therefore to whom have you likened me; that I may be exalted? said the Holy One. ²⁶ Raise your eyes upwards and take a view: who hath displayed all those? He who bringeth out his host by number can call them all by name. On the account of abundant glory, by reason of the mightiness of his power he hath in no wise escaped thy notice; ²⁷ wherefore, thou, Jacob, shouldst not say, yet what hast thou, Israel, spoken? "My way is hidden from God" and, "My God hath put off my cause and is gone." ²⁸ Hast thou then not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, the God who fitted up the ends of the earth, cannot hunger, nor can he be weary; nor can his under standing be searched out. ²⁹ He it is who giveth strength to the hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow. ³⁰ For youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen warriors will become strengthless; ³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

⁶ Collecting gold from a bag, and silver by weight they will put it in a balance; and having hired a goldsmith they made handiworks and bowing themselves down they will worship them.

⁹ From Tharsis will come the gold of Mophaz, and the hand of men skilled in casting gold. They are all the workmanship of artists. With blue and purple raiment they are to be clothed:

²⁰ If a man make gods for himself, they are indeed no gods.

³¹ Thou, king! didst behold, and lo! an image! Great was that image and its aspect lofty as it stood before thee; and its appearance was awful. ³² It was an image, the head of which was of pure gold; the hands and the breast and the arms of it were of silver; the belly and the thighs of brass;

⁴⁸ Then the king raised Daniel to high rank and gave him many great gifts, and set him over the whole region of Babylon, and a chief satrap over all the wise men of Babylon.

³⁰ Then the king reinstated Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago in the province of Babylon, and advanced them in dignity and honoured them with a command over all the Jews in his realm.

²³ Yet thou hast exalted thyself against the Lord God of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles and thy concubines and thy wives have drunk wine out of them, and thou hast praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood and stone which neither see nor hear, nor understand: but the God in whose hand is thy breath and all thy ways; him thou hast not glorified.

⁴ They made kings for themselves but not by me; they set up a government and did not consult me; of their silver and gold they made idols for themselves that they might be utterly cut off.

¹⁹ Woe to him who saith to Wood, Awake; arise. And to stone, be thou exalted. The one is indeed a fantasy; and the other, a plating of gold and silver: there is no breath in it.

²⁹ Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to imagine the Deity to be like gold, or silver, or stone, wrought by the art and contrivance of man.

²⁶ And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul by his persuasion hath perverted a vast multitude, saying that they which are made with hands, are not gods.

²⁰ And when the rest of the men who were not slain by these chastisements neither reformed from the works of their hands so as not to worship the demons and the idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

⁴ and he received them at their hands and having made of them a molten bull he fashioned it with a graving tool and said, These are thy gods Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ⁵ And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation, saying, To-morrow is the festival of the Lord. ⁶ So rising early in the morning he caused whole burnt offerings to be brought up, and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

² who invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols,

²³ the chiefs of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to rejoice. And they said; God hath delivered Sampson, our great enemy into our hand.

³² And Jeroboam instituted a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth clay of the month, answering to the festival in the land of Juda, and he went up to the altar which he made at Baithel to burn incense to the calves which he had made, and presented at Baithel the priests of the high places whom he had made.

¹² When a king hearkeneth to falsehood, all under him are transgressors.

²⁷ And the satraps and the generals and the governors and the mighty men of the king gathered round and viewed the men with astonishment; for the fire had not had any power over their body. Even the hair of their heads was not singed, nor were their mantles changed, nor a smell of fire on them.

¹ It having seemed good in the sight of Darius, he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps to be governors of provinces throughout his whole dominion; ² and over these he appointed three ministers of whom Daniel was one; that the governors might render an account to them, so that the king might not be oppressed with business. ³ And Daniel was at the head of these. Because there was in him an extraordinary spirit and the king had set him over his whole kingdom, ⁴ therefore the ministers and the governors sought to find some pretext against Daniel. And when they found no pretext, lapse or crime with which to charge him, for he was faithful;

⁶ Then the ministers and the governors waited on the king, and said to him, King Darius live forever! ⁷ All that are over thy kingdom, the generals and governors, the chief commanders and toparchs have joined in opinion to establish by a royal statute and make a firm decree, that whoever shall make any request of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee only, king; he shall be cast into the den of the lions.

² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods. ² [J] How long will you judge unjustly; and respect the persons of sinners? [[J] Jehovah [p] the prophet or psalmist.] ³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand. ⁵ They did not know; nor did they understand. They walked on in darkness. All the foundations of the land shall be shaken. ⁶ I said you are gods; and all sons of the Most High: ⁷ but you shall die like men; and fall like one of the chiefs, ⁸ [p] Arise, God, judge the land thyself: for thou shalt inherit all the nations.

³⁴ they knowing that he was a Jew, there was, for about two hours, one continued shout from all, crying out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. ³⁵ At length the recorder having stilled the crowd, said, Men of Ephesus, who is there who doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a humble devotee of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell from Jupiter?

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened; ²² pretending to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image representing coruptible man, and birds, and four footed beasts, and reptiles; ²⁴ therefore God delivered them up, by the desires of their own hearts, to impurity, that by themselves their own bodies might be dishonoured. ²⁵ They changed the truth of God for a falsity, and worshipped and served the creature, and not the creator who is blessed forever, Amen: ²⁶ therefore God gave them up to infamous passions; for even their women perverted the instinct of nature; ²⁷ and in like manner the males also leaving the sex, were inflamed with desires towards each other, which they most shamefully indulged, men with men, and received in themselves the retribution which was justly due to their error. ²⁸ And as they did not search out God to have constantly a due sense of him, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things unseemly,

¹¹ There is none who hath understanding. There is none who seeketh God.

²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God; ²⁵ because this foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and this weak thing of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For observe, brethren, this call of you, that there are not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many of illustrious birth;

¹³ And it performeth great signs so as to cause fire to come down out of heaven on the earth, in the sight of men; ¹⁴ and it leadeth astray the dwellers on the earth by the signs which it had power to do in the presence of the beast; commanding the inhabitants of die earth to make an image of the beast which had the wound of a sword and lived. ¹⁵ And power was granted to it to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might speak and cause all to be slain who would not worship the image of the beast. ¹⁶ And it causeth all both little and great, both rich and poor, both freemen and slaves to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,

¹³ These have one mind and will transfer their power and authority to the beast.

¹⁷ For God hath put it into their hearts to execute his sentence and to execute one design and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are accomplished.

⁹ So the secretaries were convened in the first month which is Nisan, on the three and twentieth day thereof in the same year, and a letter was written to the Jews reciting all that had been given in charge to the lieutenants and to the chief governors of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty seven provinces, to every province as they could read it,

¹³ A woman who is foolish and bold needeth a curb; she hath no sense of shame. ¹⁴ She sat at the doors of her house; on a seat open to view in the streets; ¹⁵ calling to passengers who were going right on their ways,

⁹ Ascend a lofty mountain, thou who proclaimest good news to Sion: exalt thy voice with strength, thou who bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem: raise it up; be not afraid; say to the cities of Juda, Behold, your God!

¹ [J] CRY aloud and spare not; raise thy voice like a trumpet: proclaim to my people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.

¹ NABUCHODONOSAR the king, to all the peoples, tribes and languages who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.

¹⁴ and cried with a loud voice, and thus he said, "Cut down that tree and lop off its branches and shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts be driven from underneath it and the birds from its branches.

²⁵ Then Darius the king wrote; To all the peoples, tribes and languages who dwell in the whole earth, Peace be multiplied to you.

¹¹ Ephraim tyrannised over his adversary, he trampled down judgment; because he set the example of going after vanities,

¹⁶ As thou hast kept the statutes of Zambri, and all the works of the house of Achab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee up to desolation, and the inhabitants of this city to hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproaches of peoples.

⁷ So when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and syrinx, and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, all the peoples, tribes and languages, falling prostrate, worshipped the golden image which nabuchodonosar the king had set up.

¹⁰ hast made a decree, that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery and all kinds of musical instruments;

¹⁵ Now therefore are you ready, when you hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk and of the psaltery and symphony and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall prostrate and worship the golden image which I have made? For if you do not worship you shall, that very hour, be cast into the furnace of fire, which is heated. And what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?

²⁸ and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorra and towards the circumjacent plain, and he beheld and lo! a flame ascended out of the earth like the smoke of a furnace.

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;

¹⁷ Yet of the residue he made a carve god, and worshippeth it, and prayeth to it, saying, "Deliver me, for thou art my God."

²² And among all the captives of Juda at Babylon; they shall from them use an execration saying, "The Lord deal with thee as he did with Sedekias, and as he did with Achiab whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire,

¹⁸ son of man, Behold to me the house of Israel are all become mixed with brass and iron and tin and lead with a mixture of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Because you are become one mass, I will therefore gather you into the midst of Jerusalem: ²⁰ as silver and brass and iron and tin and lead are put in a furnace, that the fire may be blown on it and that it may be melted; So will I take you in my wrath and gather you and melt you. ²¹ And I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath and you shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace; so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.

⁵ The king answered the Chaldees, The subject is gone from me. If you do not tell me the dream and the interpretation you shall be put to death and your houses shall be exposed to plunder.

¹² Upon this the king in furious wrath gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. ¹³ So the decree went forth. And when the wise men began to be slain Now search had been made for Daniel and his friends to slay them

¹¹ and who will not prostrate himself and worship the golden image, shall be cast into that furnace of fire which is heated.

²¹ Then were these men bound, clad as they were with their Babylonish dress and with turbans and boots; and cast into the midst of the furnace of fire which was heated,

⁷ All that are over thy kingdom, the generals and governors, the chief commanders and toparchs have joined in opinion to establish by a royal statute and make a firm decree, that whoever shall make any request of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee only, king; he shall be cast into the den of the lions.

⁹ and saith to him, All these I will give thee if thou wilt prostrate thyself and worship me.

⁴² and cast them into the fiery furnace. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

⁵⁰ and cast them into the fiery furnace. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

²⁷ So the king immediately despatched a sentinel with orders to bring the head of the baptist. And he went and beheaded him in the prison,

¹⁵ And power was granted to it to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might speak and cause all to be slain who would not worship the image of the beast. ¹⁶ And it causeth all both little and great, both rich and poor, both freemen and slaves to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and that none should buy or sell, but he who hath the mark, or the name of the beast or the number of its name.

¹¹ And the smoke of their torment riseth up for ages of ages. There is no rest day or night for them who worship the beast and its image, nor for any who receiveth the mark of its name.

⁷ Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, furnishing a plentiful draught to all the nations. Of her wine the nations drank, therefore they reeled.

¹⁶ who in the ages past suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways,

¹⁹ We know that we are of God and that the whole world is laid prostrate by the wicked one;

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent who is called The Devil and Satan who leadeth the whole world astray. He was thrown on the earth and his angels were thrown with him.

³ And I saw one of its heads as if wounded to death; and this deadly wound of it was healed; and the whole earth followed this beast with admiration.

⁸ and it is to be worshipped by all the inhabitants of the earth whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

¹⁴ and it leadeth astray the dwellers on the earth by the signs which it had power to do in the presence of the beast; commanding the inhabitants of die earth to make an image of the beast which had the wound of a sword and lived.

⁸ The beast which thou sawest was and is not and is soon to ascend out of the bottomless gulf and go to destruction; and the inhabitants of the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will wonder when they see the beast, because it was and is not although indeed it is.

²⁰ And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who did these signs before him by which he led astray them who had received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. Both these were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone;

¹² Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from thee to us, have come to Jerusalem, that rebellious and wicked city, and are rebuilding it. The walls of it are repaired, and they have reared up the foundations of it. ¹³ Now therefore be it known to the king, that if this city be rebuilt, and the walls therefore completed, no tribute will be paid to thee, nor will they do homage. Now as this is injurious to kings, ¹⁴ and it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, we have therefore sent to inform the king, ¹⁵ that he may examine the book of the records of thy fathers, by which thou wilt find, and know that this is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and countries, and that there are asylums for slaves in the midst of it, from time immemorial, for which cause this city was laid waste. ¹⁶ We therefore certify the king, that if this city be rebuilt, and the wall thereof reared up, there will be no peace for thee.

⁶ he was greatly inflamed with wrath, and determined to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes.

⁸ he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations throughout thy whole kingdom, whose laws differ from all the nations. And as they disobey the king's laws and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone; ⁹ if it seemeth good to the king, let him pass a decree to destroy them and I will subscribe ten thousand talents of silver to the king's treasury.

¹⁰ The Chaldees answered in the presence of the king and said, There is not a man on the earth who can make known what the king requireth; nor doth any king or ruler, however great, ask such a thing, of any soothsayer, magian or Chaldee.

¹² they went and said to the king, king, hast thou not passed an edict, that every man who shall make any request of any god or man for the space of thirty days save of thee only, king, shall be cast into the den of the lions? And the king said, It is true; and the decree of the Medes and Persians cannot be altered. ¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who is one of the captives from Juda, hath not paid obedience to thy decree. For three times a day he maketh requests of his God.

²⁰ And having set them before the generals of the army, they said, These men, being Jews, trouble this city of ours exceedingly, ²¹ and teach customs which it is not lawful for us, who are Romans to receive or practise. ²² Upon this the populace rose up together against them; and the generals ordered them to be stript and beaten with rods.

⁶ but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brethren before the magistrates of the city, crying out, Those men who have turned the world upside down, are come here also; ⁷ and Jason hath harboured them, though they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, There is another king, one Jesus. ⁸ So they alarmed the multitude and the magistrates, who heard these things;

²² But we should be glad to hear what thou thinkest; for with respect to this sect we know that it is every where spoken against.

³ For the past time of this life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, inordinate desires, excess of wine, revels, carouses, and abominable idolatries; ⁴ at this they are surprized; and when you do not run with them into the same sink of debauchery, they rail.

⁴ Whereupon the Chaldees said to the king in Syriac, king, live forever. Tell thy servants the dream and we will explain the meaning.

⁴ the herald cried with a loud voice, To you peoples of different tribes and languages command is given; ⁵ whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sanibuk and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, prostrate yourselves and worship the golden image which Nabuchodonosar the king hath set up.

¹⁰ Then the queen came to the banquet house and said, king, live forever! Let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor thy countenance change.

⁶ Then the ministers and the governors waited on the king, and said to him, King Darius live forever!

²¹ Thereupon Daniel said to the king, king live forever!

⁷ Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute; custom to whom custom; reverence to whom reverence; honour to whom honour is due.

¹⁶ and said, When you do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women and they are delivered, if it be a male child, kill it; but if it be a female preserve it alive.

²² Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive.

²⁰ therefore Mariam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took in her hand a timbrel and all the women went out after her with timbrels in choirs, ²¹ and Mariam led the song for them, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, For he is gloriously exalted: Horse and rider he hath thrown in the sea;

¹⁸ To which he replied, It is not the sound of men singing alternately as they rush to battle, nor is it the sound of men answering each other on a retreat, but the sound of responsive strains at a revel, which I hear. ¹⁹ And when he approached the camp and saw the young bull and the choirs, Moses being inflamed with wrath threw the two tables from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mount.

¹⁶ Now David had said to the chiefs of the Levites, Appoint your brethren, such as play on musical instruments, on nablas and kinyras, and cymbals, that they may make a loud sound with the voice of joy.

²⁸ and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and the sound of clarions and trumpets, answered by nablas and kinyras,

⁵ Asaph was the leader, and to him responded Zacharias, Jeiel, Semiramoth and Jeiel, Matthathias, Eliab and Banaias, Abdedom and Jeiel, with musical instruments, nablas and kinyras; but Asaph used the cymbal; ⁶ and Banaias and Oziel the priests, with trumpets, were to be continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

¹ Then David the king with the chiefs of this host, appointed to their services the sons of Asaph and Aiman and Idithun, who chanted with kinyras and with nablas and with cymbals, and an account was taken by poll of those employed in these services. ² The sons of Asaph were Zakchur and Joseph, and Nathanias and Erael. The sons of Asaph were near the king. ³ With Idithun were the sons of Idithun, Godolias and Suri, and Iseas and Asabias, and Matthathias, six after their father Idithim, chanting on kinyras thanksgiving and praise to the Lord. ⁴ When Aiman were the sons of Aiman, Bukias and Matthanias, and Oziel and Subael, and Jerimoth and Ananias, and Anan and Eliatha, and Godollathi and Rometthiezer, and Jesbasaka and Melithi, and Otheri and Meazoth. ⁵ All these sons Aiman had with him when he commenced a psalm for the king in the words of God. To exalt the horn God indeed had given Aiman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these with their father, sung in the house of God to cymbals and nablas and kinyras, for the service of the house of God near the king, with Asaph and Idithun and Aiman.

²⁵ Now he had stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals and with nablas and kinyras, according to the command of David the king, and of Gad the king's seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the institution was ordained at the command of the Lord, by the ministry of prophets.

¹² So the king's secretaries were convened on the thirteenth day of the first month, and they wrote as Haman directed to the generals and the governors in every province, from India to Ethiopia a hundred and twenty seven provinces, and to the chiefs of the nations according to their dialect in the name of king Artaxerxes, ¹³ and the decree was despatched by posts throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy the race of the Jews on a certain day of the twelfth month which is Adar, and to make spoil of their goods. ¹⁴ And copies of the decree were to be sent through every province and all the nations were ordered to be ready against that day.

¹ For the conclusion. On the wine presses. A Psalm by Asaph. Exult with joy for God our helper! Shout triumphantly for the God of Jacob! ² Take a psalm and bring a tympanum; the sweet sounding psaltery with a kithara. ³ Sound the trumpet at the new moon; at the set day of your festival.

¹ A Psalm of an Ode for the Sabbath day. It is good to give thanks to the Lord; and with instrumental musick sing to thy name, Most High; ² to proclaim thy loving kindness every morning; and thy faithfulness every night: ³ with a ten stringed psaltery; with an ode on the kithara.

²⁰ Shall a throne of iniquity; shall he who frameth mischief for law, have fellowship with thee?

³ Let them praise his name in choirs; on the tympanum and psaltery sing praises to him: ⁴ for the Lord taketh pleasure in his people; and with salvation he will exalt the meek.

³ praise him with the sounding trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and kithara: ⁴ praise him with the tympanum and chorus: praise him with stringed instruments and organs; ⁵ praise him with soft sounding cymbals: praise him with the cymbals of triumph: ⁶ let every breath praise the Lord. Psalm 151 N.B. There is in the Septuagint another Psalm, with this title: This Psalm on David was written by himself in prose, when he fought in single combat with Goliath. I was little among my brethren, and the youngest of my father's family. I fed my father's flocks. My hands had made an organ; and my fingers had tuned a psaltery. But who will tell my Lord. My Lord himself heareth. He sent his messenger and took me from my father's flocks and anointed me with anointing oil. My brothers were comely and great; but the Lord did not delight in them. I went out to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols. But I drew his own sword and cut off his head, and took away reproach from the children of Israel.

¹⁶ and yet I saw under the sun a place of judgment; was the [[a] an objection, [b] the answer.] wicked there? and a place for the just; was the pious there?

¹ Woe to them who write wickedness! For writers are writing wickedness;

⁴ the herald cried with a loud voice, To you peoples of different tribes and languages command is given; ⁵ whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sanibuk and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, prostrate yourselves and worship the golden image which Nabuchodonosar the king hath set up. ⁶ And whoever will not prostrate himself and worship, shall that very hour be cast into that furnace of fire, which is heating. ⁷ So when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and syrinx, and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, all the peoples, tribes and languages, falling prostrate, worshipped the golden image which nabuchodonosar the king had set up.

¹² they went and said to the king, king, hast thou not passed an edict, that every man who shall make any request of any god or man for the space of thirty days save of thee only, king, shall be cast into the den of the lions? And the king said, It is true; and the decree of the Medes and Persians cannot be altered.

⁵ some are dwelling: on the sound of musical instruments; as if they thought it fixed and not fleeting.

⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had issued an order, that if any one knew where he is, he should give information, that they might apprehend him.

⁷ and the women in responsive strains, said, Saul hath slain his thousands; And David his ten thousands, ⁸ the thing appeared evil in the eyes of Saul, because of this expression; and he said, The ten thousands they have ascribed to David; and to me they have ascribed thousands. ⁹ [Omitted] ¹⁰ [Omitted] ¹¹ [Omitted]

⁸ he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations throughout thy whole kingdom, whose laws differ from all the nations. And as they disobey the king's laws and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone;

⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger outrageous: but nothing can withstand envy.

⁴ In the review of labour in general, I took a view in particular of manly exertion in executing. Because this causeth a man to be envied by his neighbour, this therefore is vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁴⁹ And Daniel requested of the king, and he set Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago, over the works of the region of Babylon. And Daniel was in the court of the king.

¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who is one of the captives from Juda, hath not paid obedience to thy decree. For three times a day he maketh requests of his God.

²⁸ saying, Did we not strictly charge you not to teach for this name"? Yet behold you have filled Jerusalem with this doctrine of yours and wish to bring that man's blood upon us.

⁷ and Jason hath harboured them, though they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, There is another king, one Jesus.

⁵ but upon Cain and upon his sacrifices he did not look with regard. Thereupon Cain was exceedingly grieved and his countenance became dejected.

³⁰ Upon this Saul was greatly enraged at Jonathan, and said to him, Thou son of the perverse and rebellious! For do I not know that thou art an accomplice of the son of Jessai, to thy own shame, and the confusion of thy mother? ³¹ For as long as the son of Jessai liveth, thy kingdom will not be established. Now therefore send and seize that young man, for he shall surely die. ³² And when Jonathan in reply said to Saul, Why must he die? What hath he done? ³³ Saul lifted up his spear against Jonathan, to put him to death. So Jonathan knew that his father was fully bent on this mischief, to slay David,

⁵ So when Haman understood that Mordecai did not bow down to him, ⁶ he was greatly inflamed with wrath, and determined to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes.

¹² Trouble may befal a prudent man: but the foolish will devise mischief.

³ A stone is heavy and sand is weighty; but a fool's anger is heavier than both.

²² A passionate man stirreth up strife: but a furious man is a digger up of sin.

¹² Upon this the king in furious wrath gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

¹⁹ At this Nabuchodonosar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed against Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago. And he ordered to heat the furnace seven fold, till it was hot as possible:

¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and the nations.

⁹ Now look to yourselves. For they will deliver you up to councils and synagogues. You will be scourged and brought before governors and kings, for my sake, to bear testimony to them.

¹¹ Upon this they were filled with madness, and spoke one to another what they should do to Jesus.

¹² But before all these events they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, to be led before kings and governors on account of my name.

²⁵ there came one who told them, saying, Behold! the men whom you put in prison, are standing in the temple and teaching the people. ²⁶ Then the captain went with the under officers and brought them, but without violence; for they were afraid of being stoned by the people. ²⁷ And when they had brought them, and set them before the Sanhedrim, the chief priest asked them,

²⁴ And after some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

¹³ But if he was not a voluntary agent, but God delivered into his hands, I will appoint for thee a place to which he who hath killed shall flee. ¹⁴ But if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to kill him insidiously, and flee, thou shalt drag him from my altar to put him to death.

¹ Bel is fallen; Nabo is broken to pieces, Their graven images were a load for wild beasts and cattle, You are carrying them bound like a burden on the weary, fainty, and hungry, who are all without strength

² Proclaim among the nations, publish and conceal not; say, Babylon is taken; Bel is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Mairodach is delivered up.

¹ In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosar, the king made an image of gold; the height of it was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits. And having set it up in the plain of Deeira, in the province of Babylon,

⁸ Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, after the name of my God, and who hath in him a holy spirit of a God.

² Upon which Pharao said, Who is he, that I should hearken to his voice so as to send away the Israelites? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.

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.

³⁵ Who is there among all the gods of these countries who have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of it?

¹⁵ Now therefore let not Ezekias deceive you, nor cause you to trust in this manner. Do not believe him. For as there is no god of any nation or kingdom who is able to save his people out of my hand, or hath been able to save out of the hand of my fathers, therefore your God cannot save you out of my hand. ¹⁶ And besides what his servants spoke against the Lord God, and against his servant Ezekias, ¹⁷ he wrote a letter to reproach the Lord God of Israel, and spoke of him saying, As the gods of the nations of the earth have not delivered their peoples out of my hand, so neither can the God of Ezekias deliver his people out of my hand.

¹⁸ Let not Ezekias deceive you saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations, delivered every one his own country out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians? ¹⁹ Where is the God of Emath and Arphath? And where is the God of the city Eppharuim? Were they able to deliver Samaria out of my hand? ²⁰ Who is there of all the gods of the nations who hath delivered his country out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

²³ whom hast thou reproached and provoked? Or against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, [without lifting up thine eye to the Holy One of Israel?]

⁵ whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sanibuk and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, prostrate yourselves and worship the golden image which Nabuchodonosar the king hath set up. ⁶ And whoever will not prostrate himself and worship, shall that very hour be cast into that furnace of fire, which is heating.

¹⁷ For our God in heaven, whom we worship, is able to deliver us out of the furnace of fire which is heated, and he will deliver us, king, out of thy hands.

²⁸ Then Nabuchodonosar the king addressing them, said, "Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, who hath sent his angel and delivered his servants. Because they have trusted in him and have altered the king's decree and delivered up their bodies to fire that they might not serve nor worship any god, but only their own God, ²⁹ therefore I issue this decree, "Every people, tribe, language, which shall utter any reproach against the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, shall be devoted to destruction and their houses to plunder: for there is no other god who can deliver in this manner."

¹⁶ Then the king gave orders and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. And the king said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually will himself deliver thee.

²⁰ And when he approached the den, he cried with a loud voice, Daniel, the servant of the living God, hath thy God, whom thou servest continually, been able to deliver thee from the mouths of the lions?

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what you shall speak: for what you are to speak will be suggested to you at the very instant.

⁴³ He trusted in God; let him now deliver him, if he delighteth in him: for, he said, I am the Son of God.

¹¹ But when they bring you to deliver you up, be not solicitous beforehand what to say; nor premeditate; but whatever shall be suggested to you on the occasion, speak that: for it is not you, who speak; but the Holy Spirit.

⁷ If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. ⁸ Thereupon Jesus, answering him, said, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only thou shalt serve."

¹¹ Now when they bring you before their synagogues, and magistrates, and rulers, be not anxious how or what defence you shall make, or what you shall say:

⁹ Perhaps it may bear fruit: if not; then cut it down.

¹⁴ Therefore settle it in your minds not to premeditate what defence you shall make. ¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to contradict or withstand.

⁸ Then Peter being filled with a holy spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we are this day examined for a good deed done to an infirm man, by what means he hath been healed, ¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified; whom God raised from the dead by him this man standeth before you, perfectly cured. ¹¹ This is the stone that was rejected by you the builders, which was for the head of the corner. ¹² This cure indeed is by no other, nor is there any other name under heaven given among men by which we can be saved."

¹⁹ But Peter and John in reply to them, said, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye.

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

¹⁵ And all who sat in the Sanhedrim, looking stedfastly at him, beheld his countenance, like the countenance of an angel.

¹⁰ In answer to this, when the general beckoned to him to speak, Paul replied. Knowing that thou hast been for many years a judge to this nation, I enter upon my defence with the more cheerfulness, ¹¹ as thou canst know that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem. ¹² And they neither found me disputing with any man in the temple; nor raising sedition among the people, either in the synagogues or in the city: ¹³ nor can they prove any of the things which they now lay to my charge.

⁷ and the high chamberlain gave them names, to Daniel, Baltasar; and to Ananias, Sedrach; and to Misael, Misach; and Azarias, Abdenago.

¹² Now there are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, namely, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, who have not hearkened, king, to thy decree. They neither serve thy gods, nor do they worship the golden image which thou hast set up."

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless

¹⁴ Can any thing be impossible with God? About this time twelve month I will return to thee, and Sarah shall have a son.

³⁷ The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear; he will deliver me out of the hand of this uncircumcised Philistine. Then Saul said to David, Go; and the Lord be with thee.

⁴⁶ And the Lord will deliver thee this day into my hand, and I will kill thee, and cut off thy head, and give thy carcass, and the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day, to the birds of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel;

¹⁹ From six distresses he will deliver thee, and in the seventh evil shall not touch thee.

²⁹ But when he giveth rest, who shall call him to account? When he hideth his face, who can see him? Both against a nation, and against a man at the same time,

¹⁰ He mounted on cherubs and flew; he flew on the wings of winds. ¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air.

¹ A Psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my saviour. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil doers approached me, to devour my flesh; they, who afflicted me, even mine enemies fainted and fell.

¹ For the conclusion. For Idithun. A Psalm. By David. Shall not my soul be subjected to God? For from him is my salvation. ² For my God and my Saviour himself, is my supporter; I shall never any more be shaken. ³ How long will you set yourselves against a man? You are all committing murder, as with a bended wall and a rampart pushed down. ⁴ But they had determined to pull down my honour. I was fleeing in thirst; with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they imprecated curses. ⁵ But be thou, O my soul, subjected to God: for from him is mine expectation. ⁶ Because my God and my Saviour himself, is my support; I shall no more wander as an exile.

²⁰ As a dream of one awaked out of sleep. Thou, Lord, in thy city wilt spurn their ghost;

³ Our God is in heaven and on earth: all that he willed, he hath done.

⁵ The Lord will keep thee! The Lord at thy right hand will be thy shelter: ⁶ the sun by day shall not scorch thee; nor shall the moon hurt thee by night. ⁷ May the Lord preserve thee from all evil! the Lord will keep thy soul.

² Behold! my God is my Saviour, I will trust in him and not be afraid. Because the Lord is my glory and my praise; and hath become unto me salvation;

³ who support truth and keep peace; because their confidence is placed in thee, Lord! ⁴ who art to everlasting, the Mighty, the Eternal God,

¹⁴ And with righteousness thou shalt be rebuilded. Abstain from injustice and thou shalt not be affrighted; and as for terror, it shall not approach thee.

⁸ Be not afraid of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the Lord.

³⁵ and all the inhabitants of the earth are reckoned as nothing; and he doth according to his pleasure in the army of heaven and in the habitations of the earth; and there is none who can stay his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done.

²⁰ And when he approached the den, he cried with a loud voice, Daniel, the servant of the living God, hath thy God, whom thou servest continually, been able to deliver thee from the mouths of the lions? ²¹ Thereupon Daniel said to the king, king live forever! ²² My God sent his angel and shut the mouths of the lions and they have not hurt me. For before him rectitude was found in me; and even in thy sight, king, I have committed no offence.

²⁷ He supporteth and delivereth and doth signs and wonders in heaven and on earth. He it is who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

³⁷ For with God nothing is impossible.

²⁴ But I make no account of any of these, nor is this life of mine so much my concern as to finish with joy my course; even the office which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the favour of God.

¹³ But Paul answered, Why make ye this ado, weeping and breaking my heart? As for me, I am ready, not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

²⁰ Now as neither sun nor stars appeared for several days, and the tempest still bore hard upon us, all hopes of escaping were at last taken away. ²¹ And there being then a great abstinence from food, Paul standing in the midst of them said, Sirs, you ought to have hearkened to me and not sailed from Crete and incurred this damage and risk. ²² However, for the present, I exhort you to be of good courage, for there will be no loss of any life among you, but of the ship only. ²³ For an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, stood by me last night, ²⁴ and said, Fear not, Paul. Thou must appear before Caesar; and lo! God hath given thee all them who are sailing with thee. ²⁵ Therefore take courage, sirs: for I have a confidence in God that the result will be just as it hath been told me.

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

²⁵ So that he is completely able to save them, who come to God by him, as he is ever alive to intercede for them.

³ Thou shalt have no other gods besides me. ⁴ Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing, which is in the heaven above, or in the earth below, or in the waters under the earth; 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;

⁴ you shall not follow idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God;

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.

¹⁵ Though the Almighty, as he hath begun, may subdue me: yet I will speak and plead before him.

¹ The wicked fleeth when none pursueth: but the righteous is bold as a lion.

¹² I THE I AM am he who comforteth thee. Recollect what thou wast when terrified at a mortal man, and at a son of man who are withered like grass; ¹³ and forgot test the God who made thee; him who made the heaven and founded the earth; and wast every day in continual dread of the furious countenance of thine oppressor. For how did he consult to carry thee away! But where now is the fury of thine oppressor?

²⁸ Then Nabuchodonosar the king addressing them, said, "Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, who hath sent his angel and delivered his servants. Because they have trusted in him and have altered the king's decree and delivered up their bodies to fire that they might not serve nor worship any god, but only their own God,

²⁸ And be not afraid of them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

³² Whosoever therefore will acknowledge me before men, him I will acknowledge before my father, who is in heaven: ³³ but whosoever shall disown me before men, him I will disown before my father who is in heaven.

³⁹ He who hath found his life shall lose it. But he, who shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

² Whereupon he in reply said to them, When it is evening you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red:

³ Because what you have said in the dark, will be heard in the light; and what you have whispered in closets will be proclaimed on the house tops; ⁴ therefore I say to you, my friends; Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that can do no more: ⁵ but I will point out to you whom you should fear; Fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. I repeat it to you, Fear him. ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. ⁷ Nay, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. ⁸ Now I say to you, Whosoever will acknowledge me before men, him the son of man will acknowledge before the angels of God: ⁹ but he who hath denied me before men shall be disowned before the angels of God.

¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified; whom God raised from the dead by him this man standeth before you, perfectly cured. ¹¹ This is the stone that was rejected by you the builders, which was for the head of the corner. ¹² This cure indeed is by no other, nor is there any other name under heaven given among men by which we can be saved." ¹³ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and found that they were illiterate men, and in private stations of life, they wondered; and recollected their having been with Jesus.

²⁹ In reply to which Peter and the apostles said, We must obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, having caused him to be suspended on a cross ³¹ even him, a chief leader and a Saviour, God hath exalted at his right hand to give repentance to Israel and a remission of sins. ³² And we are his witnesses of these things, as is also the Holy Spirit which God hath granted to them who obey him.

¹⁰ Be not terrified at what thou art about to suffer. Behold the devil will soon cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and ye will have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. ¹¹ Let him who hath an ear hear what the spirit saith to the congregations. "He who overcometh shall not be hurt by the second death."

¹¹ and they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and have not spared to expose their life even to death.

⁵ but upon Cain and upon his sacrifices he did not look with regard. Thereupon Cain was exceedingly grieved and his countenance became dejected. ⁶ And the Lord God said to Cain, "Why art thou become sorrowful and why is thy countenance dejected?"

² And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and lo! it was not towards him as heretofore.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoil; I will glut my vengeance: My sword shall slay; my hand shall prevail. ¹⁰ Thou didst send forth thy blast, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty water.

¹⁸ And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will proceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences,

²¹ And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins;

²⁴ I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you seven fold for your sins;

²⁸ I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins.

³³ and piled up the split wood upon the altar which he had made. He then divided the whole burnt offering in quarters, and laid it on the split wood. And when he had laid it in order upon the altar, he said, Bring me four pots of water and pour it on the whole burnt offering and on the split wood. ³⁴ And when they had done so, he said, Do the same again. And when they had done this a second time, he said, Do it a third time. So they did it a third time, ³⁵ and the water ran down about the altar and filled the trench with water.

¹⁰ Son Ader sent to him saying, God do so to me and more also, if I do not make Samaria a jakes for all the people of my infantry. ¹¹ In reply to which the king of Israel said, Enough! let not him who is crooked boast like him who is straight.

²⁷ I know indeed thy sitting down and thy going out and thy wrath against me. ²⁸ Because thy rage is against me and thy haughtiness hath come up to my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and turn thee back the way thou camest.

⁷ Then the king rising from the banquet went into the garden, and Haman supplicated the queen, for he saw himself in a desperate situation.

¹⁰ Since the secret purpose of man can contribute to thy praise, let the remainder of it cause a festival to be celebrated for thee.

¹⁴ The wrath of a king is a messenger of death: but a wise man can pacify it.

²⁴ He who is bold, selfwilled and boastful is called loimos [a pest;] and he who harboureth mischief is called a transgressor.

³ A stone is heavy and sand is weighty; but a fool's anger is heavier than both. ⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger outrageous: but nothing can withstand envy.

²³ And I will put it into the hands of them, who have injured thee and oppressed thee; who have said to thy soul, Crouch down that we may walk over thee, when thou hadst bent thy body down level with the earth in the street, to them passing along.

¹³ Upon this Nabuchodonosar in wrath and fury commanded to bring Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago: and when they were brought before the king,

⁶ Whereupon the king's countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him and the joints of his loins were loosened and his knees smote one against another.

²⁴ Then the king commanded and they brought the men who had accused Daniel, and they and their sons and their wives were cast into the den of the lions. And before they reached the bottom of the den the lions had such mastery over them that they broke all their bones.

⁶³ and said, Sir, we have recollected that this impostor, when alive, said, After three days I shall be raised up. ⁶⁴ Give orders therefore that the sepulchre be secured till the third day. Perhaps his disciples may come by night, and steal him away, and tell the people, he is risen from the dead. So this last imposture will be worse than the first. ⁶⁵ Thereupon Pilate said to them, You have a guard. Go and secure it as you can. ⁶⁶ So they went and secured the sepulchre, sealing the stone and posting the guard.

⁴ therefore I say to you, my friends; Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that can do no more: ⁵ but I will point out to you whom you should fear; Fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. I repeat it to you, Fear him.

³³ At hearing this they were cut to the heart, and consulted to put them to death.

⁵⁴ At hearing this they were cut to the heart and gnashed their teeth at him.

⁴ But as this was during the days of unleavened bread, when he had apprehended him he put him in prison, committing him to the custody of four quaternions of soldiers, intending to bring him out to the people after the passover. ⁵ So Peter was kept in prison; and there was earnest prayer to God made for him by the congregation.

²³ And having inflicted on them many stripe's, they committed them to prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely.

²⁵ And about midnight Paul and Silas, having prayed, sung a hymn to God; and the prisoners heard them.

³³ And the Egyptians pressed the people with great earnestness to hurry them away out of the country; for they said, We shall all die.

⁸ A righteous man escapeth a snare: and in his stead the wicked is delivered up.

¹⁸ and a transgressor wisheth to be acquitted as a righteous man.

¹⁵ touching the counsel and decree, "Why, chief of the king, hath this horrid sentence gone forth from the king's presence?" And when Arioch informed Daniel of the matter,

² saith, Behold I will make Jerusalem like shaken porches for all the peoples around. And by Judea there shall be a siege against Jerusalem, ³ and in that day I will make Jerusalem a stone to be trampled by all the nations: every one who trampleth her will make her his mocking stock. When all the nations of the earth shall be gathered against her,

⁵ Thereupon he threw down the money in the temple, and withdrew, and went and strangled himself.

¹⁹ And Herod having caused search to be made for him, and not finding him, after examining the guards, he ordered them to be led away to execution. Then departing from Judea, he went down to Caesarea and resided there.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord will deliver them.

¹¹ Thou didst bring us into the net: thou didst lay affliction on our back: ¹² thou didst mount men over our heads; we have passed through fire and water. But thou hast brought us to a place of rest.

¹ A Song of the steps. Had not the Lord been on our side [let Israel now say] ² had not the Lord been on our side, when men rose up against us; ³ they might have swallowed us up alive; when their wrath was kindled against us, ⁴ the water might have overwhelmed us. Our soul hath passed through a torrent. ⁵ Hath our soul then passed through impetuous water?

⁶ So they threw him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son which was in the court of the prison. And when they had lowered him down into the dungeon, there was no water in the dungeon, but there was mire; and he was in the mire.

⁵² With eagerness all mine enemies have hunted me like an ostrich; ⁵³ without cause they have condemned me to die in a dungeon, and placed a stone over me. ⁵⁴ Water was poured above upon my head. I said, I am cast off.

¹⁶ Then the king gave orders and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. And the king said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually will himself deliver thee. ¹⁷ And when they had brought a stone and put it on the mouth of the den, the king caused it to be sealed with his own signet and with the signet of his nobles that nothing might be altered in respect to Daniel.

⁸ For we do not, brethren, wish you to be ignorant with respect to that affliction of ours which befel us in Asia; that we were exceedingly pressed beyond our strength, so that we had indeed no hopes of life; ⁹ but had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead, ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will still deliver us,

¹⁷ For this momentary and light affliction of ours is working out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression,

¹² Beloved, be not surprized at the fiery trial among you, which is come upon you to try you, as if some strange thing had befallen you: ¹³ but inasmuch as you partake of the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice; that at the manifestation of his glory you may indeed rejoice with exceeding great joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are happy; because the spirit of the glory, even the spirit of God resteth on you. On their part indeed it is reviled, but on your part it is glorified.

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² he sent for the presidents and the generals, and the governors, rulers and princes, and those in authority, and all the chiefs of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nabuchodonosar the king had set up. ³ And when the governors, the presidents, the generals, the leaders, the great princes, those in authority, and all the chiefs of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the image which Nabuchodonosar the king had set up, and were standing before the image,

⁹ "king, live forever! thou, king, ¹⁰ hast made a decree, that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery and all kinds of musical instruments;

²² Thou, king art it. For thou art become great and strong and thy greatness hath increased and reached up to heaven and thy dominion to the limits of the earth.

²⁷ For this cause, king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee; and make atonement for thy sins by acts of kindness, and for thy transgressions by tender mercies for the distressed. Perhaps God may forgive thine offences.

¹⁸ O king, God, the Most High gave to Nabuchodonosar thy father this kingdom and majesty and glory and honour.

²² My God sent his angel and shut the mouths of the lions and they have not hurt me. For before him rectitude was found in me; and even in thy sight, king, I have committed no offence.

²³ saying, We found indeed the prison shut with all safety, and the guards without standing before the door; but on opening we found no one within. ²⁴ And while the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests, upon hearing these words, were doubting how this could be, ²⁵ there came one who told them, saying, Behold! the men whom you put in prison, are standing in the temple and teaching the people.

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."

¹³ And when Peter knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant maid named Rhoda, went to inquire who was there.

¹³ in the middle of the day, on the road, I saw, O king, a light from heaven, exceeding the brightness of the sun, flashing around me and them who were accompanying me.

²⁷ Thou, O king Agrippa, believest the prophets? I know that thou believest.

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 When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round them that fear him, and deliver them.

³ Because he will deliver thee from the snare of hunters; and tumultuous accusation; ⁴ with his breast will overshadow thee: therefore under his wings thou shalt rest secure. His truth will encompass thee with armour. ⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night; nor of the arrow which flieth by day; ⁶ of the thing which walketh in darkness; nor of mischance and the demon of noon day. ⁷ A thousand may fall at thy side; and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not approach thee. ⁸ But thou with thine eyes shalt observe, and see the reward of the wicked. ⁹ Because thou, O Lord, my hope; hast made the Most High thy refuge;

⁴ Who hath ascended up to heaven and come down? Who hath collected the winds in his bosom? Who hath infolded the water in a mantle? Who hath a dominion over all the ends of the earth? What is his name? or what the name of his sons?

² therefore when thou passest through water, I am with thee, and the streams shall not overwhelm thee: and when thou passest through fire, thou shalt not be burned up; the flame shall not quite consume thee.

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.

¹⁸ they will take up serpents: though they drink deadly poison, it shall not hurt them: upon sick persons they will lay their hands, and they shall recover.

³⁵ And the angel answering, said to her, A holy spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee, therefore the holy offspring will be called the son of God.

⁷ The Jews answered, We have a law; and by that law of ours he ought to die, because he hath pretended to be the son of God. ⁸ Now when Pilate heard this expression he was more alarmed

⁵ He indeed shaked off the venomous creature into the fire, and suffered no harm;

⁴ him who was determinately marked out as son of God by a power, according to a spirit of holiness, of rising up from the dead,]

¹³ Who then will hurt you if you be imitators of him who is good?

¹⁸ Melchisedek also the king of Salem carried out bread and wine. Now he was a priest of the most High God,

¹⁷ Then the priests who carried the Ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood on dry ground, and all the children of Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had finished crossing the Jordan.

¹⁰ Now the priests, who carried the ark of the covenant, stood in the Jordan, until Joshua had executed all that the Lord commanded him to declare to the people. And the people hasted and crossed over.

¹⁶ Command the priests who carry the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to come up out of the Jordan; ¹⁷ And Joshua had commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan, ¹⁸ it came to pass that as soon as the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up out of the Jordan, and had set their feet on the land, the water of the Jordan rushed impetuously to its place, and overflowed all its banks, as it did before.

¹¹ Thereupon they answered us to this effect saying, We are the servants of the God of the heaven and the earth, and we are rebuilding his house which was built many years ago. A great king of Israel actually built it and fitted it up for them;

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Sovereign Lord; behold I lay for the foundation of Sion a stone of inestimable worth; a chosen, precious corner stone for the foundations of it, and he who believeth shall not be ashamed.

¹² For you shall not come out in haste, nor by flight march along; for the Lord will march before you in front; and the God of Israel will bring up your rear.

⁴⁷ And the king answered and said to Daniel, Of a truth, your God is the God of Gods, and the Lord of kings, the revealer of secrets; since thou hast been enabled to reveal this secret.

² It hath seemed good in my sight to declare to you the signs and the wonders which the God who is Most High hath done with me.

¹⁷ This girl, following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God. They are telling us the way of salvation.

³⁷ Paul said to them, Having scourged us publicly without a trial, men who are Roman citizens, they have cast us into prison, and now discharge us privately!

²³ For an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, stood by me last night,

¹⁰ For do I now conciliate the favour of men rather than of God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

⁵ And there came out from the throne a voice, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants and ye who fear him, both small and great.

⁴⁶ And the Lord will deliver thee this day into my hand, and I will kill thee, and cut off thy head, and give thy carcass, and the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day, to the birds of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel; ⁴⁷ and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saveth not with a sword or a spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and the Lord will deliver you into our hands.

¹⁹ But now, Lord our God, save us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth will know that thou the Lord alone art God.

¹⁸ and let them know that thy name is the Lord; that thou alone art the Most High over all the earth.

⁷ Ascribe to the Lord, ye families of nations; ascribe to the Lord glory and honour ⁸ ascribe to the Lord glory to his name. Take sacrifices and come to his courts: ⁹ worship the Lord in his holy court: Let all the earth be moved at his presence.

¹¹ Thy hand, Lord, was lifted high; but they did not know it; but when they know they will be ashamed. Zeal will seize an uninstructed people; even now a fire devoureth the adversaries.

³⁰ Nay, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

¹⁷ And on the account of my name you will be hated by all. ¹⁸ But not a hair of your head shall be lost.

⁶ So when this report spread, the multitude came together and were confounded. Because every one heard them speaking in his own peculiar dialect; ⁷ therefore they were astonished and expressed their amazement, saying one to another, Behold! are not all these men who speak, Galileans?" ⁸ How then do we hear, every one in his own native tongue! ⁹ Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia and Judea, and Capadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphilia, Egypt and the parts of Lybia about Gyrene, the Roman strangers also both Jews and Proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabs, we hear them speaking, in our own tongues, the wonderful dispensations of God. ¹² So they were all amazed and in suspense, saying to one another, What can be the meaning of this?

²⁶ For the king is acquainted with these things, to whom therefore I speak with freedom. For I am persuaded that none of these things have escaped his notice. For this hath not been done in a corner.

³⁴ Therefore I intreat you to take refreshment, for this is conducive to your safety: for not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you.

³⁴ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in battle, repelled armies of aliens.

²⁶ he said, "Ah devoted Chanaan! "To his brethren he will be a domestic servant. Moreover he said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Sem: "And let Chanaan be his domestic servant."

¹⁵ Now when it was break of day the angels hurried Lot, saying, Arise and take thy wife and thy two daughters whom thou hast, and get away, lest thou also perish for the iniquities of this city. ¹⁶ But they were confounded. So the angels took hold of his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, as the Lord spared him.

²⁰ they prevailed over them. And the Agarenians with all their tents, were delivered into their hands. For in the battle they cried to God and he hearkened to them, because they trusted in him.

²⁰ And they arose early in the morning, and went out to the wilderness of Thekoe. And as they were marching out, Josaphat stood and cried with a loud voice, and said, Hear me, Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. Trust in the Lord our God, and you shall be confirmed in your confidence. Confide in his prophet, and you shall prosper.

²¹ the Lord sent an angel who destroyed every mighty man, and warrior, including chief and general, in the camp of the king of Assur. So he returned with shame to his own land, and went to the house of his god, and some of them who sprang from his loins slew him with the sword.

³ Whoever is among you of all his people, his God be with him; and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judea, and build the house of the God of Israel. He who is at Jerusalem is very God.

¹¹ Moreover by me a decree is made, that if any man counteract this mandate, a beam be taken from his house, and that he being suspended, be executed thereon, and his house confiscated.

²³ Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done. Take heed that no one offer any insult to the house of the God of heaven, lest there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons. ²⁴ Moreover, in respect to all the priests and the Levites, the musicians, the keepers of the gates, the Nathimins, and those employed in the service of the house of God, this hath been notified to you, Take no toll of them. Thou shalt have no authority to exercise dominion over them. ²⁵ And thou Esdras! as the wisdom of God is in thy hand, appoint scribes and judges, that they may administer justice to all the people beyond the river, to all such as know the law of thy God, and to such as know it not you shall make it known. ²⁶ And whoever will not readily perform the law of God, and the law of the king, upon him let judgment be passed, whether it be to death or to correction, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." ²⁷ Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers who thus put it in the king's heart to glorify the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, ²⁸ and who gave me favour in the eyes of the king and his counsellors, and of all the officers of the king who were high in office. As for me, I strengthened myself, as the good hand of God was upon me, and assembled from among Israel chiefs to go up with me.

⁴ In thee our fathers placed their trust; they trusted and thou didst deliver them. To thee they cried and they were saved; ⁵ in thee they trusted and were not put to shame.

¹⁸ Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them who fear him; on them who confide in his mercy;

²¹ Because by him our heart can be made glad, therefore in his holy name we have trusted.

⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round them that fear him, and deliver them. ⁸ Taste and see that the Lord is good! happy is the man, who trusteth in him.

²² The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none will transgress who trust in him.

⁸ Trust in him all ye congregated people: pour out your hearts before him; for God is our helper.

¹¹ Because the Lord loveth mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them who walk in innocence. ¹² O Lord of hosts! happy is the man whose trust is in thee.

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

⁵ Happy he whose helper is the God of Jacob: his hope is in the Lord his God, ⁶ who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all the things in them;

¹¹ The Lord delighteth in them who fear him, and in all them who trust in his mercy.

³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive.

⁷ But blessed is the man who hath trusted in the Lord; and whose hope is the Lord. ⁸ He will be like a thriving tree near waters which shall shoot out its roots in a moist soil. It will not be afraid when heat cometh, though its stock be loaded with branches. In a year of drought it will not be afraid, nor will it fail to bear fruit.

¹⁵ Now therefore are you ready, when you hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk and of the psaltery and symphony and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall prostrate and worship the golden image which I have made? For if you do not worship you shall, that very hour, be cast into the furnace of fire, which is heated. And what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands? ¹⁶ In reply to this, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago said to the king Nabuchodonosar, We are at no loss to answer thee in respect to this matter. ¹⁷ For our God in heaven, whom we worship, is able to deliver us out of the furnace of fire which is heated, and he will deliver us, king, out of thy hands. 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.

²⁵ the king said, Here I see four men loose and walking about in the midst of the fire unhurt: And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of a god.

³⁴ And at the end of the days I Nabuchodonosar lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and mine understanding was restored to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and glorified him who liveth forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion and his kingdom is to endless generations,

²² My God sent his angel and shut the mouths of the lions and they have not hurt me. For before him rectitude was found in me; and even in thy sight, king, I have committed no offence. ²³ At this the king was exceedingly rejoiced and gave order to take Daniel up out of the den. So he was taken up out of the den and there was no manner of hurt found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

²⁶ From my presence this decree is established, that in every government of my kingdom men tremble and be struck with awe at the presence of the God of Daniel; for he is the living God and endureth forever, and his kingdom can never be destroyed and his dominion will be to the end.

¹⁰ Whereupon Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan: for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him alone.

¹⁹ But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison; and having brought them out said,

⁷ behold an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, and a light shone in the prison. And touching Peter's side he roused him up, saying, Arise quickly. Upon which his chains dropped from his hands. ⁸ Then the angel said to him, Gird thyself and put on thy sandals; and when he had done so, then he saith to him, Throw thy mantle around thee and follow me. ⁹ So going out, he followed him, but did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. ¹⁰ And having passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord. So, going out, they proceeded on through one street, and suddenly the angel left him. ¹¹ Then Peter coming to himself, said, Now I know certainly that the Lord hath sent his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the Jews.

¹ therefore I exhort you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God as your rational, religious service;

⁷ For none of us liveth to himself, nor doth any die to himself. ⁸ For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord; so that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

¹² to the end that we who first trusted in the Christ might be for the praise of his glory; ¹³ and by whom you also, when you heard the word of this truth, the glad tidings of this salvation of yours"by whom you indeed, when you believed, were sealed with the spirit of the promise

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall in no wise be ashamed; but that in the most open manner, as always so now, Christ shall be magnified in my body, either by life or by death.

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

³⁷ They were stoned; they were sawn asunder; they were tempted; they were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheep skins, in goats skins, destitute, afflicted, tormented,

²¹ who by him believe in God, who hath raised him from the dead, and hath given him glory, so that you may have faith and hope in God.

³¹ For their gods are not like our God; And our enemies are without understanding.

⁸ this deliverance is the Lord's: let thy blessing be upon thy people also.

²⁶ From my presence this decree is established, that in every government of my kingdom men tremble and be struck with awe at the presence of the God of Daniel; for he is the living God and endureth forever, and his kingdom can never be destroyed and his dominion will be to the end. ²⁷ He supporteth and delivereth and doth signs and wonders in heaven and on earth. He it is who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

³⁰ For this cause, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, I said, Thy house, and the house of thy father, shall go out before me for ever; but now the Lord saith, Far be this from me; for I will honour them only who honour me. And he who despiseth me shall be despised.

³ And he will be like the tree planted by the streams of water, which will yield its fruit in due season, and its fruit shall not fall untimely. In all that he doth he shall be prospered.

¹⁴ [J] Because he trusted in me, I will deliver him: I will protect him because he knew my name.

²⁶ If any one would wait upon me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall this attendant of mine also be. And if any one wait upon me my Father will reward him.