Deuteronomy 17 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a young bull, or a sheep, in which there is a blemish; any defect; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. ² If there be found in any of thy cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a man, or a woman, who shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to transgress his covenant, ³ and they have gone, and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the whole host of heaven, which he hath not commanded thee, ⁴ and information be given thee, and thou hast made strict inquiry, and behold the thing hath been actually done, and such an abomination hath been committed in Israel, ⁵ thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die. ⁶ On the testimony of two or three witnesses the guilty person shall be put to death; but shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. ⁷ And the hand of the witness shall be upon him, among the first, to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of the people. So thou shalt remove the wickedness from among you. ⁸ And if any cause which requireth judicial decision; an action of murder, an action of appeal, a case of leprosy, an action of plaint and denial; any causes which require decision in any of your cities, be too difficult for thee, thou shalt arise, and go up to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, ⁹ and there come to the priests, the Levites, or to the judge, who 10 ever he may be in those days, and they shall inquire, and declare to thee the sentence of judgment, ¹⁰ and thou shalt act according to what they declare to thee from the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen: and thou shalt be careful to do according to what is expounded to thee for law. ¹¹ According to the law, and according to the sentence of judgment, which they tell thee, thou shalt do. Thou shalt not deviate from what ¹² they tell thee, either to the right, or to the left. And if any man act presumptuously, so as not to hearken to the priest who hath stood to minister to the name of the Lord thy God; or to the judge who may be in those days; that man shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the evil person from among Israel, ¹³ and all the people, when they hear, will be struck with awe, and no more act presumptuously. ¹⁴ And when thou art come to the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and hast taken possession of it, and dwelt therein, if thou shouldst say, I will set a chief over me, as the other nations around me do; ¹⁵ thou shalt surely set, as chief over thee, him whom the Lord thy God shall chuse. Thou shalt appoint one of thy brethren chief over thee. Thou shalt not be at liberty to set a stranger over thee, because he is not thy brother. ¹⁶ Because he is not to multiply cavalry for himself, he must not even cause his people to go back to Egypt; in order that he may not multiply his cavalry: the Lord indeed hath said, You shall not henceforth return that way any more. ¹⁷ Neither shall he multiply wives to himself; that his heart may not turn aside; nor shall he greatly multiply for himself silver and gold. ¹⁸ And when he is settled in his government, he shall write for himself this repetition of the law in a book, from that which is in the custody of the priests, the Levites. ¹⁹ And he shall keep it by him, and shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these commandments, and execute all these judgments; ²⁰ that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren; that he may not turn aside from these commandments, to the right, or to the left, to the end that he and his sons may long enjoy his government among the children of Israel.

³ And seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and lean; and they fed near the other cows on the bank of the river; ⁴ and the seven ill favoured and lean cows devoured the seven cows which were of a beautiful figure and full of flesh. And Pharao awoke.

¹⁹ And lo! seven other cows came up after them, out of the river, ugly and ill favoured and lean of flesh; such that I never saw worse in all the land of Egypt.

⁵ Your sheep shall be without blemish, a male and in its first year. You may take either from the lambs or the kids.

²⁰ What hath any blemish in it they shall not bring to the Lord; for it will not be accepted for you. ²¹ And whoever shall bring a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, either in discharge of a vow, or as a free will offering, or at your festivals, from the herd or from the flock, it must, in order to its being accepted, be without blemish. There must be no blemish in it. ²² That which is blind, or bruised, or which hath its tongue cut, or hath been eaten by ants, or is infected with scurvy or mange; these they shall not bring to the Lord, nor shall you give any such for an offering of homage on the altar to the Lord. ²³ A young bull, or a sheep which hath its ear cropped, or its tail cut, these thou mayst slaughter for thyself; but in discharge of thy vow they will not be accepted. ²⁴ What are castrated by crushing, bruising, cutting or extracting; these thou shalt not bring to the Lord, nor shall you make an offering of them in your land, ²⁵ nor from the hand of a stranger bring any such forward as gifts for your God. Because there is a defect in them; a blemish in them; they will not be accepted for you.

²¹ But if any hath a blemish in it; if it be lame, or blind, or any way blemished, thou shalt not sacrifice it to the Lord thy God.

¹⁸ There shall not be a prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall any of the Israelites be a votary of prostitution. Thou shalt not bring the hire of an harlot, nor the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord, for any vow, for both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

⁴ her former husband, who put her away, shall not be at liberty to return and take her again to wife; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God; and you must not defile the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession.

¹⁶ for every one who doth these things; every one who committeth injustice, is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

¹⁶ Because he delighteth in all those things which God hateth: therefore he is destroyed for the depravity of his soul.

¹ A deceitful balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

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

¹⁰ Diverse weights and diverse measures are impure in the sight of the Lord. Yes, both they and he who useth them.

⁸ Since, if you offer the blind for sacrifices, it is not evil; and if you offer the lame or sickly, it is not evil. Offer such now to thy governor, will he admit thee? Will he accept thy person? saith the Lord Almighty.

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,

¹⁴ how much more will the' blood of the Christ, who by an eternal spirit hath offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works that you may serve the living God.

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot,

¹⁵ but disobey them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to perform all my commandments, so as to break my covenant,

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.

²³ take heed to yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and transgress and make for yourselves a graven image of any of the things about which the Lord thy God hath given thee a charge;

⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. ⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people. ¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you. ¹² And if thou shalt hear it said, that in one of the cities, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to dwell in, ¹³ there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not; ¹⁴ thou shalt examine, and make inquiry, and search diligently: And behold, if the report is evidently true, and such abomination hath been committed among you; ¹⁵ thou shalt surely destroy all the inhabitants of that land, with the slaughter of the sword. With an Anathema thou shalt devote to destruction, it and all that are in it. ¹⁶ And thou shalt collect all the spoils of it into the streets thereof, and burn with fire the city, and all the spoils thereof, with all the inhabitants, in the sight of the Lord thy God. And it shall be uninhabited for ever. It shall never be rebuilt any more; ¹⁷ nor shall any thing of what is devoted to destruction cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his wrath, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion on thee, and multiply thee, in the manner he solemnly promised thy fathers, ¹⁸ if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments which I this day command you; to do what is comely and well pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

⁵ thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die.

¹⁸ is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness?

²⁵ Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

²⁰ For when I bring them into that good land, which I solemnly promised their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat, and be satiated, and they will turn to strange gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant;

¹¹ This people hath sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them. They have stolen some of what was devoted, and put it among their stuff;

¹⁵ and whoever is pointed out, he shall be burned with fire and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and committed iniquity in Israel.

¹⁶ when you transgress the covenant of the Lord our God, which he hath commanded us, and go and serve other gods and worship them.

²⁰ then was the anger of the Lord kindled against Israel, and he said, Because this nation have forsaken my covenant, which I gave in charge to their fathers, and have not hearkened to my voice,

¹² because they had not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant; and, with regard to all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, had neither hearkened to them nor done them.

³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not abide by this covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them.

³⁸ And I will punish thee with the punishment of an adulteress, and involve thee in the blood of wrath and jealousy;

⁷ As for them, they are like man transgressing a covenant.

¹ Because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law,

⁹ not such a covenant as I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt; because they did not abide by that covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, After these days, saith the Lord, adapting my laws to their understanding I will write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁹ and that upon looking up to heaven, and seeing the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven, thou mayst not be led astray, and worship them, and perform religious service to those things which the Lord thy God hath arranged in due order, for all the nations which are under heaven.

³ He restored and rebuilt the high places which his father Ezekias had demolished; and erected an altar to Baal; and made bowers as Achab king of Israel had done; and worshipped the whole host of heaven and served them.

²⁶ or, [do we not see the refulgent sun sometimes eclipsed, and the moon continually changing? for it is not in them:] ²⁷ if then my heart hath been secretly enticed, and I have laid my hand on my mouth and kissed it

²² Because I did not speak to your fathers nor give them a charge, on the day when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices; ²³ but only gave them this charge saying, "Hearken to my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people; and walk in all my ways which I command you that it may be well with you."

³¹ and have built up the altar of Tophet which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; a thing which I never commanded them and which never entered my mind;

² and expose them to the sun and moon and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven which they loved and served, and after which they went and to which they were attached, and to which they bowed down. They shall not be lamented nor buried; but shall be for a spectacle, on the face of the earth

⁵ and have built high places to Baal to burn their sons with fire, things which I never commanded, and which never came into my mind;

³⁵ and have built up the altars to Baal which were in the valley of the son of Ennom to offer up their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; a thing which I never commanded them, nor did it ever come into my mind that they should commit such an abomination to cause Juda to transgress heinously.

¹⁶ Then he led me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; and at the vestibule of the temple of the Lord, between the ailams and the altar, were about twenty men; their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces the direct contrary way; and they were worshipping the sun.

¹² And if thou shalt hear it said, that in one of the cities, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to dwell in, ¹³ there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not; ¹⁴ thou shalt examine, and make inquiry, and search diligently: And behold, if the report is evidently true, and such abomination hath been committed among you;

¹⁸ And when the judges have made a strict examination, if the false witness hath testified falsehoods, and risen up against his brother;

² The glory of God obscureth a matter: but the glory of a king giveth a lustre to actions.

⁵¹ Doth our law condemn the man without hearing him, and knowing what he hath done?

¹⁴ Lead out him who cursed, without the camp, and all who heard shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him.

¹⁶ but let him who nameth the name of Lord be put to death. Let the whole congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a proselyte, or born among them, when he nameth the name of the Lord, let him die.

¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you.

²¹ Thereupon the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the wicked from among you; and the rest, who hear, will be struck with awe.

²¹ they shall carry out the young woman to the doors of her father's house, and stone her with stones, till she die, because she hath committed folly in Israel, by making her father's house a place of prostitution. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.

²⁴ you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city, and stone them with stones, till they die: the young woman, because she did not cry aloud in the city, and the man because he humbled the wife of his neighbour. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.

²⁵ Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us? The Lord destroy thee, as at this day! Then all Israel stoned him with stones.

³⁰ When any one hath slain a person, thou shalt put to death the murderer, by witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to be put to death.

¹⁵ One witness shall not be sufficient to testify against a man for any iniquity, or any crime, or any sin, which he may commit. By the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, every thing shall be established.

¹⁶ But if he will not hearken to thee, then take with thee one or two, that by the testimony of two or three witnesses everything may be ascertained;

¹⁷ Now it is written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. ¹⁸ I am one testifying concerning myself, and the Father who sent me testifieth concerning me.

¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is to' be established.

¹⁹ Receive not an accusation against an elder, but on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁸ Whoever hath set at naught the law of Moses dieth without mercy, on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken to lead thee astray from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage; to put thee out of the way in which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.

⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people.

¹² they tell thee, either to the right, or to the left. And if any man act presumptuously, so as not to hearken to the priest who hath stood to minister to the name of the Lord thy God; or to the judge who may be in those days; that man shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the evil person from among Israel,

¹⁹ you shall do to him as he wickedly thought to do to his brother. thou shalt remove the evil from among you;

⁷ If any man be found stealing any of his brethren, the children of Israel, or, having got him in his power, selleth him, the thief shall be put to death. So shalt thou remove evil from among you.

¹³ Now therefore deliver up those men, those sons of transgressors in Gabaa, that we may put them to death, and purge away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to their brethren the children of Israel.

⁵⁸ And having driven him out of the city they stoned him. And the witnesses laid their mantles at the feet of a young man named Saul, ⁵⁹ and stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

¹³ and God will pass sentence on those without. Therefore remove the wicked person from among yourselves.

²⁶ with orders to administer justice to the people on all occasions, and that they should lay before him the matter which was too high for them; but the causes easily determined they themselves should decide;

¹² If any one smite another and he die, he shall be put to death. 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.

²⁰ If a man smite his man servant or his maid servant with a staff; and the servant die under his hand, vengeance shall be taken by a judicial process;

²² If two men fight and strike a woman with child and she miscarry of an embrio, atonement shall be made by a fine. According as the husband of the woman shall with a judicial decision lay upon him, he shall pay:

²⁸ If a bull gore a man or a woman and he or she die, the bull shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be held guiltless:

² If a thief be found in the act of breaking in and be struck and die, he who struck him is not liable to death;

¹¹ and you will set apart for yourselves cities, which shall be your places of refuge, to which the manslayer may flee. When any person killeth another unwittingly,

¹⁶ But if he hath smitten him with an instrument of iron, and he die, he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death.

¹⁹ The avenger of blood himself shall kill him. When he meeteth him he shall slay him. ²⁰ And if, through hatred, he hath pushed him down, or thrown at him from ambush, any instrument whatever, and he die; ²¹ or if on account of an old grudge he hath smitten him with his hand, and he die; let him who smote be put to death: he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him. ²² But if on a sudden, not through malice aforethought, he hath pushed him down, or thrown any instrument at him, not from ambush, ²³ nor with any stone by which he might be killed, or not seeing him, and it light upon him, and he die, and he was not his enemy, nor seeking to do him any injury, ²⁴ the congregation shall judge between him who smote, and the avenger of blood, according to these rules of decision; ²⁵ and the congregation shall deliver the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he fled; and he shall dwell there, till the death of the high priest, whom they have anointed with holy oil. ²⁶ And if the manslayer go out of the bounds of the city of his refuge to which he fled, ²⁷ and the avenger of blood find him out of the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the slayer, he is not guilty of death. ²⁸ For he should have remained in the city of refuge till the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land of his possession. ²⁹ These shall be your rules of decision, for your generations, in all your dwellings. ³⁰ When any one hath slain a person, thou shalt put to death the murderer, by witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to be put to death. ³¹ And you shall take no ransom for life from a manslayer who is guilty of death; for he must be put to death: ³² nor shall you take any ransom from him who hath fled to a city of refuge, that he may dwell again in his land, until the death of the high priest. ³³ So you will not pollute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. ³⁴ You must not defile the land in which you dwell; in which I dwell among you; for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not respect a person in judgment. Against the low and the high thou shalt pass sentence, and not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. And if the matter be too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.

⁵ but you shall seek out and come to the place, which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of your cities, to put his name there, and to be invoked;

⁴ And this shall be the ordinance for every slayer who may flee thither, and live. Whosoever shall smite his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past,

¹⁰ so that guiltless blood may not be shed in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession. ¹¹ But there must not be among you one guilty of blood. If therefore there be among you a man who hateth his neighbour, and who shall lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him so that he die, and flee to one of these cities;

¹⁷ the two men between whom is the controversy, shall stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.

¹⁶ Then there appeared before the king two women who were harlots, and when they stood in his presence ¹⁷ one of them said, Hear me, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house, and we were delivered of children in the same house. ¹⁸ And it happened that the third day after my delivery this woman was delivered. We were together. There is no body with us; none but we two in the house. ¹⁹ And this woman's son died in the night, as she overlaid it. ²⁰ And she arose in the middle of the night, and took my son out of my arms, and laid it in her bosom; and her own child which was dead, she laid in my bosom. ²¹ So when I arose in the morning to give my son suck, behold it was dead. But when I examined it attentively in the morning, behold it was not my son whom I bore. ²² And the other woman said, No: but the living is my son and the dead is thy son. And when both had spoken before the king, ²³ he said to them, Thou sayst, This is my child which is alive, and that which is dead is that woman's child. And thou sayst, No: but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. ²⁴ Then the king said, Bring me a sword. And when they had laid the sword before the king, ²⁵ he said, Divide the living child; the infant, in two; and give one half to this woman and the other half to that woman. ²⁶ Upon this the woman whose son the living child really was, answered and said to the king; because her bowels yearned for her son, therefore she said, I beseech thee my lord, Give her the child. Do not kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers. Divide it. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her who said, Give the child to her and do not kill it; For she is the mother. ²⁸ And when all Israel heard the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king, for they saw that there was in him the wisdom of God to execute judgment.

⁸ In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed some of the priests and Levites and patriarchs of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁹ And he gave them a charge, saying, Thus shall you act, in the fear of the Lord, with truth and with an upright heart; ¹⁰ You must all conjointly determine every cause of your brethren who dwell in their cities, which shall come before you for decision, between blood and blood, and between ordinance and command. And you shall explain to them the rules of rectitude and judgments, that they may not sin against the Lord, and that no wrath may come upon you, nor upon your brethren. Thus you shall do and not sin.

⁴ for thither the tribes have come up; the tribes of the Lord, a testimony to Israel; that they may give thanks to the name of the Lord: ⁵ because there the thrones for judgment are set: thrones for the house of David.

¹¹ "Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Ask the priests the law, saying,

⁷ Because the lips of a priest were to keep knowledge therefore law was to be sought from his mouth; since he is a messenger of the Lord Almighty:

¹⁷ the two men between whom is the controversy, shall stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days. ¹⁸ And when the judges have made a strict examination, if the false witness hath testified falsehoods, and risen up against his brother; ¹⁹ you shall do to him as he wickedly thought to do to his brother. thou shalt remove the evil from among you; ²⁰ and the rest, when they hear, will be afraid, and thenceforth proceed no more to commit such evil among you. ²¹ Thine eye shall not pity him; life for life; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot.

¹⁸ Upon this they said, "Come let us settle on account with Jeremias. Because law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a word from the prophet, Come and that we may smite him with the tongue, let us hear all his words."

²⁴ And they shall attend at trials for blood to pronounce sentence. They shall acquit according to my statutes, and condemn according to my judgments. And they shall keep all my rites and mine ordinances at all my festivals and shall hallow my Sabbaths.

² The reign of the heavens may be compared to a temporal king, who made a marriage feast for his son. ³ And he sent his servants to call them who were invited to the wedding, but they would not come.

³² Be careful therefore to do as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Turn not aside to the right, nor to the left,

²⁰ that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren; that he may not turn aside from these commandments, to the right, or to the left, to the end that he and his sons may long enjoy his government among the children of Israel.

¹ When a controversy happeneth between men, and they have come to a trial, and the trial is over, and the righteous is acquitted, and the criminal known;

¹⁴ thou wilt not turn aside from all the commandments which I this day command thee, either to the right, or to the left, to go after other gods, to serve them.

⁷ Therefore be strong, and courageous, to watch, and to do as my servant Moses commanded. Thou must not deviate from them, to the right or to the left. That thou mayst clearly understand all that thou art to do:

⁶ Be strong therefore to keep with all diligence, and to do all that are written in the book of the law of Moses, that you may not turn aside to the right, nor to the left.

¹⁹ And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in this whole business? And the woman said to the king, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, there is no turning to the right, nor to the left, from all that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab commanded me, and he himself put all these words in the mouth of thy servant,

²⁷ Turn not to the right, nor the left; but turn away thy foot from an evil way; for God knoweth the ways on the right, but those on the left are crooked. But he will make thy paths straight and conduct thy steps in peace.

⁸ but as for you, you have turned aside out of the way and weakened many by law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty, ⁹ therefore I have made you contemptible and outcasts among all the nations, because you did not keep my ways, but in law have had respect to persons.

¹ Let every soul be subject to the ruling powers; for there is no power but from God. The powers in being are arranged by God; ² so that he who setteth himself against the power resisteth the arrangement of God; and they who resist shall receive for themselves condemnation. ³ For the rulers are not a terror to good works but to evil. Dost thou then wish not to dread the power? Do that which is good and thou shall have praise from it. ⁴ For it is a minister of God for good to thee. But if thou dost evil, be in dread; for it wieldeth not the sword in vain. For it is a minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath on him who doth evil. ⁵ Therefore it is necessary to submit to government, not only on account of punishment, but also for conscience's sake. ⁶ Indeed on this account you pay taxes, because there are ministers of God continually employed for this very purpose.

¹ Put them in mind to be subject to governments and authorities; to pay prompt obedience; to be ready for every good work;

¹³ Be subject therefore to every human establishment for the Lord's sake, whether to a king as supreme, ¹⁴ or to governor as persons sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them who do well. ¹⁵ For it is the will of God that you should by such good behaviour curb the ignorance of foolish men.

¹⁰ and more especially them who go after flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Being audacious, and self sufficient they tremble not when they revile glories;

⁸ so likewise shall these dreamers. They indeed defile the flesh, and despise authority and revile glories,

³⁰ But if any person, whether a native or a proselyte, shall presumptuously transgress, he provoketh God; that person shall be cut off from among his people.

⁸ Now the Lord, having at that time set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, and to serve, and bless in his name, as they do at this day,

¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you.

⁷ And the hand of the witness shall be upon him, among the first, to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of the people. So thou shalt remove the wickedness from among you.

⁵ Because the Lord hath chosen him, out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord God, to minister and to bless, in his name; therefore with regard to him and his sons,

⁷ that he may minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who attend there before the Lord thy God,

²⁰ But the prophet who shall wickedly presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall be put to death.

⁸ and that whoever did not come within three days, according to the order of the chiefs and the elders, all his substance should be anathematised, and he himself should be excommunicated from the congregation of the captivity.

¹³ and for those of others, spare thy servant. If they gain not a dominion over me: then shall I be spotless, and clean from great transgression.

¹¹ When a profligate is punished the innocent become more cautious; and the intelligent wise man will gain knowledge.

³ [J] From the thirteenth year of Josias son of Amos king of Juda even to this day, for three and twenty years I have spoken to you rising early and speaking: ⁴ and I have sent to you my servants the prophets; rising early and sending them, though you have not hearkened nor inclined your ears; ⁵ saying, Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your wicked pursuits and you shall dwell in this land, which I gave to you and your fathers from age to age. ⁶ Go not after strange gods to serve them, and worship them, that you may not provoke me by the works of your hands to bring evils upon you. ⁷ But you hearkened not to me. ⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Since you have not believed my words, ⁹ behold I am sending, and I will take a family from the north and bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations around it. And I will lay them waste and make them a desolation and an object of pity and an everlasting reproach. ¹⁰ And I will destroy from among them the sound of joy and the sound of gladness; the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; the odour of myrrh and the light of the lamp. ¹¹ And the whole country shall be a desolation. And they shall be slaves among the nations seventy years. ¹² And when the seventy years are compleated I will execute vengeance on that nation, and make them an everlasting desolation. ¹³ I will indeed bring against that land all these words of mine which I have spoken against it; all the things which are written in this book which Jeremias prophesied against the nations, ¹⁴ [Omitted]

⁴ [J] In order that none may be judged, that none may reprove, this people of mine shall be like a contradicted priest, [[J] Jehovah. [p] The prophet speaks.]

¹⁴ And whosoever will not receive you, nor hear your words, when you leave that house or that city shake off the dust of your feet.

¹⁶ He who hearkeneth to you, hearkeneth to me: and he who rejecteth you, rejecteth me; and he who rejecteth me, rejecteth him who sent me.

⁴⁸ He who slighteth me and receiveth not my words, hath that which condemneth him; the word which I have spoken, that will condemn him at the last day.

²³ Whose sins soever you forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins soever you retain, they are retained.

² For you know what instructions we gave you by the Lord Jesus:

⁸ He therefore who rejecteth [these instructions] rejecteth not man, but God, even him who hath given us his holy spirit.

²⁰ Them, who sin, rebuke before all, that others may fear.

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Whoever hath set at naught the law of Moses dieth without mercy, on the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much greater punishment, think ye, will he be thought worthy, who hath trampled upon the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, a common thing, and treated contemptuously the spirit of grace?

³⁰ But if any person, whether a native or a proselyte, shall presumptuously transgress, he provoketh God; that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he hath despised the statute of the Lord, and hath broken his commandments, that person shall be blotted out: his sin shall be upon him.

²⁰ and the rest, when they hear, will be afraid, and thenceforth proceed no more to commit such evil among you.

³⁴ When you are come to the land of the Chananites which I give you for a possession, and I send a touch of a leprosy on the houses of the land which you possess,

¹ Now when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into that land, to which thou art going, there to possess it, and hath removed from before thee mighty nations; the Chettite, and the Gergasite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pheresite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, seven nations, more numerous, and stronger than you;

³¹ When you have gone in, to possess the land which the Lord our God giveth you for a perpetual possession, and you shall dwell therein,

⁹ for till now you have not come to the rest, and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you: ¹⁰ but when you cross the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord our God giveth you for a possession; when he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell in safety, then there shall be a place, wherever the Lord thy God shall chuse, for his name to be invoked.

⁹ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

¹ Now, when thou art come to the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession, and hast taken possession of it, and dwelt therein;

⁹ and brought us to this place, and gave us this land; a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹³ Remember what Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you saying; The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.

⁵ and said to him, Behold thou art grown old, and thy sons do not walk in thy way. Now therefore appoint a king over us to judge us like the other nations. ⁶ And the thing was evil in the sight of Samuel, that they should say, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord. ⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of this people as they have spoken to thee. For they have not rejected thee; but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

¹⁹ because you have chosen a king for yourselves. But the people would not hearken to Samuel, but said to him, None but a king shall be over us. ²⁰ We will be like all the nations, and our king shall judge us, and 21 go out before us, and fight our battles.

¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, that we may not die, because we have added evil to all our sins, in asking for ourselves a king.

¹⁵ Now the Lord had made a revelation to Samuel, the day before Saul came to him, saying, ¹⁶ About this time to-morrow I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon the affliction of this people; for their cry hath come up to me. ¹⁷ And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, Behold the man, whom I mentioned to thee! That man shall rule over my people.

²⁴ And Samuel said to all the people, Have you seen him whom the Lord hath chosen for himself, that there is none like him among you all? And when all the people acknowledged him and said, God save the king;

¹² So he sent for him. Now he was of a ruddy complexion, with beautiful eyes, and comely in appearance to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, Arise and anoint David, for he is good. ¹³ So Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And a Spirit of the Lord came upon David, from that day forward. Then Samuel arose and went to Armathaim.

² Heretofore, while Saul was king over us, It was thou who didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

²³ Now these were the rolls of the chiefs of the army who came to David to Chebron, to transfer the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.

¹⁰ He shall build a house for my name. And he shall be to me a son; and I will be to him a father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom in Israel forever.

⁵ so in preference to all my sons, for the Lord hath given me many sons, he hath made choice of my son Solomon, to set him on the throne of the Lord's kingdom, over Israel.

² The kings of the earth combined; and the chiefs assembled together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, [saying]

⁶ But as for me, by him I am appointed king on Sion his holy mountain.

²⁵ Turn thy foot from a rugged way, and thy throat from thirst. But she said, I will act like one come to maturity. Because she loved strangers, therefore after them she did go.

²¹ His own mighties shall preside over them; and from him his own chief shall come forth; and he will gather them that they may return to me" that he who hath given his heart, whoever he is, may return to me, saith the Lord.

¹⁷ Tell us therefore what thou thinkest. Is it lawful to pay tribute to Caesar, or not?

¹⁷ Now when Pharao sent away the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, because it was near. For God said, Perhaps the people will repent when they see war and will return to Egypt:

¹³ Whereupon Moses said to the people, Take courage; stand still and see the salvation which cometh from the Lord; which he will work for you this day. For in the manner you have seen the Egyptians this day, you shall never see them again any more.

³ If we must die, why doth the Lord lead us into that land to fall in battle? Our wives and our children will be for a prey. Now therefore it is better for us to return to Egypt. ⁴ Then they said to one another, Let us appoint a leader, and return to Egypt.

⁶⁸ And the Lord will send thee back into Egypt, in ships, [by the way which I ordered thou shalt see it no more:] and thou shalt there be exposed to sale to your enemies, for bond men and bond women, and there will be no purchaser.

¹¹ and said, This will be the prerogative of the king who shall reign over you. He will take your sons, and appoint them for his chariots, and for his horsemen, and some to run before his chariots,

⁴ David intercepted a thousand of his chariots, and seven thousand cavalry, and twenty thousand infantry; and David destroyed all the chariots, except one hundred which he reserved for himself.

⁵ Then Adonias, son of Aggith, took upon him state, saying, I shall be king; and provided himself with chariots, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

²⁶ [Omitted]

²⁶ And Solomon had four thousand mares for chariots and twelve thousand cavalry. The mares he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem. And he was supreme over all the kings, from the river to the land of the Philistines and to the borders of Egypt. ²⁷ So the king made gold and silver to abound in Jerusalem like stones; and cedars like the sycamore trees in the plain. ²⁸ Now Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Thekoua. The king's merchants got them from Thekoua by barter,

²⁵ And Solomon had four thousand breeding mares for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and these he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

⁷ Some boast of chariots and some of horses; but by the name of the Lord our God we shall be magnified.

¹ ALAS! They went down to Egypt for help! They trusted in horses and chariots; for they have many and their cavalry is very numerous; and did not rely on the Holy One of Israel, nor did they ask counsel of the Lord. ² Therefore he in his wisdom brought evils on them: and that his word may not be slighted, he will rise up against the houses of wicked men and against this hope of theirs which is vain ³ against an Egyptian; a man, not a god; against the flesh of horses in which there is no help. When the Lord shall lay his hand upon them, then shall these helpers fail and be all destroyed together.

⁸ were you now in close connexion with my master the king of the Assyrians; and were I to give you two thousand horses; could you put riders on them? ⁹ How then can you revolt and affect to be petty princes. Those are reduced to slavery who have trusted in the Egyptians for charioteers and cavalry.

¹⁴ "We will not abide in this land; for we will go to the land of Egypt, that we may not see war nor hear the trumpet's sound, nor pine for want of bread; and we will dwell there." ¹⁵ Then hear the word of the Lord, Thus said the Lord, If you set your face for Egypt, and go there to make your abode; 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.

¹⁵ Now should he revolt from him so as to send his ambassadors to Egypt, that it may furnish him with horses and a great army, shall he prosper? Shall he who is perfidious escape? And shall he who breaketh a covenant be delivered?

⁵ Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, though Assur was his king.

³ Assur cannot save us. We will no more mount horses; we will no more say to the works of our hand, "You are our gods." He who is in thee will compassionate the fatherless.

²⁴ therefore a man is to leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

² For David had sons born to him in Chebron. His first born was Amnon, the son of Achinaam, the Jezraelitess; ³ and his second, Daluia, the son of Abigaia, the Carmelite, and his third, Abessalom, the son of Maacha, a daughter of Tholmi, king of Gessir, ⁴ and his fourth, Ornia, the son of Aggith, and the fifth, Saphatia, the son of Abital, ⁵ and the sixth Jetheraam, the son of Aigal, a wife of David. These were born to David at Chebron.

²¹ Moreover all the vessels for king Solomon's service were made of gold. The lavers were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the forest of Libanus were gilt with gold. None was of silver; for it was not held in estimation in the days of Solomon.

¹ Now king Solomon was immoderately fond of women. He had seven hundred wives, princesses; and three hundred concubines; and he took for wives strange women besides Pharao's daughter, women of Moab and Ammon, Syrians, Idumeans, Chettites and Amorites. ² To those of the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, You shall not go in unto them nor shall they come in unto you, lest they turn your hearts after their idols; to these Solomon was attached by love: ³ For when his strange wives had turned his heart after their gods, ⁴ so that when he grew old his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by doing so? Though among many nations there was not a king like him? Though he was beloved by God, and God had made him king over all Israel, yet strange women led him astray.

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression; nor eagerly covet plunder; if riches flow in, set not your heart on them.

⁸ Give me neither riches nor poverty, but order for me things necessary and convenient; ⁹ that when I am filled I may not become false and say, Who seeth me? Or being in want, steal and swear by the name of God.

¹⁵ Now did not he who had the residue of spirit, do right? Yet you have said, "What else but a seed doth God require?" But keep this in your mind, "Thou must not forsake the wife of thy youth."

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumeth; and where thieves do not break through and steal.

²² And that sown among thorns denoteth him, who heareth the word, but worldly care and the delusion of riches choak the word and it becometh unfruitful.

⁵ Moreover he said, "For this cause a man is to leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh;

²³ Thereupon Jesus said to his disciples, Verily I say to you, With difficulty will a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴ Again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ Then he said to them, Take heed and be upon your guard against covetousness. For in what affluence soever a man may be, his life doth not depend on his possessions.

⁹ But they who determine to be rich, fall headlong into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

¹⁷ Charge them who are rich in this present state not to be high minded; not to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who imparteth to us richly all things for enjoyment;

⁹ Now Moses had written the words of this law in a book; so he gave it to the priests, the children of Levi, who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the children of Israel.

²⁴ Now when Moses had made an end of writing all the words of this law in a book, even to the close, ²⁵ he gave a charge to the Levites, who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, ²⁶ Take this book of the law; and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there for a witness against thee;

¹² Then he sent for the king's son and put upon him the nezer and the testimony, and announcing him king, anointed him. Upon which they clapped with the hand, and said, Long live the king.

⁸ Chelkias the high priest said to Sapphan the scribe, I have found a book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Chelkias gave the book to Sapphan; and when he had read it

¹⁵ Whereupon Chelkias addressing Saphan the scribe said, I have found a book of the law in the house of the Lord. Chelkias gave the book to Saphan,

¹⁰ that day when you stood in the presence of the Lord our God at Choreb, on the day of the solemn assembly. For the Lord said to me, Assemble the people before me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth. And let them teach their children.

⁶ And these injunctions, which I this day give thee in charge, shall be in thy heart, and in thy soul; ⁷ and thou shalt impress them on thy children, and speak of them, when thou sittest at home, and when thou art walking abroad, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up; ⁸ and thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy right hand, and it shall be immoveably before thine eyes. ⁹ You shall also write them on the posts of your houses and gates.

¹⁸ Therefore lay up these things in your heart, and in your soul, and bind them for a sign on your hand, that they may be immoveably before your eyes.

⁸ the book of the Law must never be out of thy mouth. Thou must study it day and night, that thou mayst know how to do all that are written. Then shalt thou be prospered; and thou wilt make thy ways prosperous; and then thou shalt have a good understanding.

² His delight will be in the law of the Lord only. And on his law he will meditate day and night.

⁹⁷ MEM. O! how I have loved thy law, Lord! It is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ Thou hast given me a knowledge of thy law above mine enemies; because it is mine forever. ⁹⁹ I had more understanding than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my study. ¹⁰⁰ I understood more than elders: because I diligently sought thy commandments.

³⁹ You search the scriptures because you think you have by means of them everlasting life! Now these are the very writings which testify concerning me;

¹⁵ and that, from thy childhood, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise for salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for reformation, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly fitted for every good work.

² You shall not add any thing to what I command you; nor shall you diminish from it. You shall keep the commandments of the Lord our God, which I, this day, give you in charge.

² and thou shalt keep in remembrance all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and prove thee, and know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or not.

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;

²⁵ Thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee. If thou wouldst do what is good, and well pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God,

²⁸ Observe and hear, that thou mayst do all the things which I command thee, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever. When thou hast done what is well pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord thy God;

³² Be careful to do every thing which I this day command you. Thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.

¹¹ According to the law, and according to the sentence of judgment, which they tell thee, thou shalt do. Thou shalt not deviate from what

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: ¹⁴ but now thy kingdom will not be continued to thee. But the Lord will seek for himself a man after his own heart; and the Lord will appoint him to be ruler over his people, because thou hast not kept all that the Lord commanded thee.

²³ Because divination is a sin, the consulting Theraphin bringeth sorrow and distress: because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, therefore the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

¹² But I will not do these things in thy days for the sake of thy father David. Out of the hand of thy son will I take it; ¹³ but I will not take the whole kingdom, I will give thy son one tribe for David my servant's sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.

³⁴ though by raising up enemies against him as I certainly shall do all the days of his life, I will not take out of his hand the kingdom, which shall continue to him entire, for the sake of my servant David whom I chose;

³⁶ And to his son I will give two tribes, that my servant David, may have a standing continually before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

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.

³⁰ Though the Lord said to Jehu, Because thou hast taken a pleasure in doing what is right in my sight, and hast done to the house of Achab according to all that was in my heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel;

¹⁰ Thou hast smitten Idumea, and thy heart is elated. Enjoy thy glory at home. Why seekest thou a quarrel to thy hurt, that thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee?

¹⁹ Thou hast said, Behold I have smitten Idumea, therefore thy stupid heart lifteth thee up. Abide now at home: why dost thou take counsel to thy hurt, that thou mayest fall and Juda with thee?

¹⁶ But when he became strong his heart was elated to his destruction; for he trespassed against the Lord his God and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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.

¹² And when he was afflicted he sought the favour of the Lord his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers,

¹⁹ and how God hearkened to him at the words of his prayer; and all his sins and his apostasies; and the places on which he built mounts and erected bowers, and graven images before his conversion; behold they are written among the words of the seers.

²³ and did not humble himself before the Lord as Manasses his father had humbled himself. Because his son Amon multiplied transgression,

²⁷ as thy heart was affected, and thou didst humble thyself before me when thou heardst these words of mine against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof; As thou hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy garments and wept before me; I have heard saith the Lord.

¹¹ These indeed thy servant keepeth; for keeping them there is a great reward.

¹ A Song of the steps. O LORD, my heart is not exalted, nor are mine eyes lofty; Nor have I exercised myself in great things: nor in things too wonderful for me. ² Had I not been humble, but exalted myself as a weaned child doth against its mother; how thou wouldst have retributed to my soul!

¹² if thy children keep my covenant, and these my testimonies, which I will teach them, their children also shall sit on thy throne forever.

²⁷ The fear of the Lord prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

²⁴ for wealth and power do not continue with a man forever; nor can he transmit them from one generation to another.

¹³ and that it cannot be well with the wicked; and that he who is not awed by the presence of God cannot prolong his days at ease;

¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts is against every scorner and haughty man; and against every one high and lofty, and they shall be humbled:

²⁰ But when his heart became elated and his spirit emboldened to shew its arrogance, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and his glory was taken from him; ²¹ and he was driven from among men; and his heart was disposed to associate with the beasts; and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and he was fed with grass like an ox; and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, till he was made to know that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will. ²² Now thou, Baltasar, his son, hast not therefore humbled thy heart before this God. Hast thou not known all these things? 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 If any one draw back my soul hath no pleasure in him. But the just shall live by faith in me.

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.

⁵ Likewise ye who are young, submit to those more advanced in years. And being all submissive to one another; adorn yourselves with humility; because "God resisteth the proud and granteth favour to the humble;"