Hebrews 11 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now, faith is a confident expectation of things hoped for; a convincement of the mind with respect to the reality of things not seen. ² By this therefore the ancients obtained reputation. ³ By faith we understand that the ages were arranged by a word of God, that the things seen should not at all be out of things which appear. ⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; by means of which he received a testimonial of being righteous, God himself giving a testimony in favour of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, still speaketh. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for before his translation he received this testimonial that he was well pleasing to God. ⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing; for he who cometh to God must believe that he existeth, and that he is the rewarder of them who diligently seek him. ⁷ By faith Noah, when warned of unforeseen events, with a religious concern prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of that righteousness which is by faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham, when called, shewed obedience by going to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and set out on his journey not knowing whither he was going. ⁹ By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange land, and dwelt in tents with Isaak and Jacob, who were coheirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he expected that city which hath foundations, whose architect and founder is God. ¹¹ By faith Sarah also received strength for conception, and was delivered of a son when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore there sprang even from one, and him dead as to these things, a posterity like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sand on the sea shore which is innumerable. ¹³ These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they viewed them at a distance, and were persuaded of, and embraced them, and acknowledged that they were strangers and sojourners in the land. ¹⁴ For they who speak thus shew plainly that they are seeking their father's country: ¹⁵ Now had these been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had an opportunity of returning thither: ¹⁶ but now they desire a better; that is a heavenly country; therefore God is not ashamed of them; to be invoked as their God: for he prepared a city for them. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was put to the trial, offered up Isaak. Though he had received the promises he offered up his only begotten son, ¹⁸ in respect to whom it had been said, that "in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee," ¹⁹ reckoning that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which in a figurative sense, he had received him. ²⁰ By faith respecting things to come Isaak blessed Jacob and Esau. ²¹ By faith Jacob, when a dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshipped, bowing upon the head of his staff. ²² By faith Joseph, at the close of his life, made mention of the departure of the Israelites, and gave a charge concerning his bones. ²³ By faith Moses, when he was born was concealed three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a comely child, and they were not terrified by the king's edict. ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; ²⁶ accounting the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had an eye to the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt in defiance of the king's wrath; for he persevered as seeing Him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he celebrated the passover, and the pouring out of the blood, that the destroyer of the first born might not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they passed through the red sea as on dry ground, which the Egyptians attempting to do were swallowed up. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, when processions had been made around them, for seven days. ³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with the unbelievers, she having received the spies with peace. ³² And what shall I say more? For the time would fail me to speak of Gideon, and Barak, and Sampson, and Jephthae of David and Samuel, and the prophets, ³³ who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in battle, repelled armies of aliens. ³⁵ Women received their dead children, by a restoration of them to life. As for others, some were tortured, not expecting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection; ³⁶ and others received the trial of mockings, and scourgings, besides bonds and imprisonments. 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, ³⁸ [of whom the world was not worthy] wandering in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth. ³⁹ Though these all received a testimonial by means of their belief, they did not obtain the promise, ⁴⁰ God having provided something better for us, that without us they should not be made perfect.

¹ In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

¹ Thus were finished the heaven and the earth and all the arrangement of them.

³ And when in process of time Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord, ⁴ and Abel also brought, he indeed of the firstlings of his flock even some of the fattest of them, God looked upon Abel and on his gifts; ⁵ but upon Cain and upon his sacrifices he did not look with regard. Thereupon Cain was exceedingly grieved and his countenance became dejected.

⁸ Then Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go into the plain." And when they were in the plain, Cain rose upon Abel his brother and slew him.

¹⁰ Then the Lord said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me out of the ground.

¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, "Not so. Whosoever killeth Cain shall suffer seven fold vengeance." And the Lord God gave a sign to Cain, that whoever found him would not kill him.

²⁵ And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Seth, saying, "For God hath raised up for me another seed in the place of Abel whom Cain slew."

²¹ And Enoch lived one hundred and sixty five years and begot Mathousala. ²² And Enoch continued to please God after he begot Mathousala two hundred years and begot sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. ²⁴ And Enoch continued to please God and was not found, for God translated him.

⁹ Now these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; and being perfect in the tenor of his life, Noe pleased God.

¹³ therefore the Lord God said to Noe, "The time of every man is come before me. Because the earth is filled with iniquity by their means, therefore behold I am going to destroy them and the earth.

⁵ And Noe did all that the Lord God commanded him.

²³ It swept away every thing raised up, which was on the face of the earth, man and cattle and reptiles and the fowls of the air. They were swept away from the earth, and Noe alone was left and they who were with him in the ark.

¹⁶ "Go forth out of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons' wives with thee,

³¹ And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grand son, and Sara his daughter in law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chaldees to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there.

¹ Now the Lord said to Abram, Depart from thy land and from thy kindred and from the house of thy father and come to the land which I will shew thee, ² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed; ³ and I will bless them, who bless thee; and those who curse thee I will curse: and by thee all the tribes of the earth shalt be blessed. ⁴ So Abram went as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy five years old when he came out of Charran.

⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him. ⁸ And from that place he went to the mountain east of Baithel and there pitched his tent, having Baithel on the west and Aggai on the east, and built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

³ therefore he proceeded on to the place from which he had come into the wilderness, even to Baithel to the place where his tent formerly was, between Baithel and Aggai,

¹⁵ For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and thy seed for ever. ¹⁶ And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth. If any can count the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered. ¹⁷ Arise and travel through the land, the length and the breadth thereof, for to thee I will give it and to thy seed for ever. ¹⁸ Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt near the Oak of Mambre, which was by Chebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.

¹ After these things a word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I protect thee. Thy reward shall be exceedingly great.

⁵ Then he led him out and said to him, Look up now to the heaven and count the stars if thou canst number them. Then he said, So shall thy seed be.

⁷ Then he said to him, I am the God who brought thee out of the country of the Chaldees, that I might give thee this land to inherit it. ⁸ Whereupon he said, sovereign Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

⁷ And I will establish this my covenant with thee and thy seed after thee, throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give thee and thy seed after thee this land in which thou sojournest; even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."

⁸ And I will give thee and thy seed after thee this land in which thou sojournest; even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."

¹⁷ Upon this Abraham fell on his face and smiled, and said in his heart, To him who is in his hundredth year shall a son be born? and shall Sarah bring forth in her ninetieth year? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee. ¹⁹ Whereupon God said to Abraham, Nay, behold Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaak. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to be his God and the God of his seed after him.

¹⁹ Whereupon God said to Abraham, Nay, behold Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaak. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to be his God and the God of his seed after him.

¹ Again God appeared to him at the Oak grove of Mambre. As he was sitting at the door of his tent at noon, ² he raised his eyes and looked, and lo! three men stood above him. And when he saw them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent; and having made obeisance to the ground,

⁶ Then Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said to her, Haste, and mix up three measures of fine flour and make cakes on the hearth.

⁹ And be said to Abraham, Where is Sarah thy wife? And Abraham said, Behold! in the tent.

¹¹ [Now Abraham and Sarah were far advanced in life, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.] ¹² And Sarah smiled within herself, saying, It hath never been so with me even to this time, and my lord is old. ¹³ And the Lord said to Abraham, Why did Sarah smile within herself, saying, Shall I indeed bring forth? I who am old? ¹⁴ Can any thing be impossible with God? About this time twelve month I will return to thee, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹⁴ Upon this Lot went out and spoke to his sons in law, who had bethrothed his daughters and said, Arise and depart from this place; for the Lord is going to destroy this city. But he seemed to his sons in law to be mocking.

¹ Now the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken, ² and she conceived and bare a son to Abraham in old age at the set time, of which the Lord had spoken to him.

¹² But God said to Abraham, Let not this respecting thy son and respecting the handmaid appear hard in thy view. Hearken to the voice of Sarah in whatever she may have said to thee. For in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee.

¹ And it came to pass after these things that God tried Abraham and said to him, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here I am. ² And he said, Take thy son, thy dear son whom thou hast loved; Isaak; and go to the hilly country and offer him up there for a whole homage offering on one of the hills which I will point out to thee. ³ So Abraham arose in the morning and saddled his ass and took with him two servants and his son Isaak: and having split wood for the whole homage offering he set out on the journey and came to the place which God told him ⁴ on the third day. Now when Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place at a distance

⁴ on the third day. Now when Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place at a distance ⁵ he said to his servants, Stay here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder, and when we have worshipped we will return to you.

⁵ he said to his servants, Stay here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder, and when we have worshipped we will return to you. ⁶ Then Abraham took the wood of the whole homage offering and laid it on his son Isaak; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they both proceeded on together. ⁷ And Isaak said to his father Abraham, Father. And he said, What is the matter, son? And Isaak said, Here is the fire and the wood; where is the sheep for a whole homage offering? ⁸ And Abraham said, My son! God will provide for himself a sheep for a whole homage offering. So they both proceeded on together ⁹ and came to the place which God told him. And Abraham built there the altar, and placed thereon the wood; and having bound his son Isaak he laid him on the altar above the wood. ¹⁰ And when Abraham stretched forth his hand to take hold of the knife to slay his son, ¹¹ the angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here I am. ¹² And he said, Lay not thy hand on the lad, nor do any thing to him; for now I know that thou fearest God and on my account hast not spared thy darling son. ¹³ Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and lo! a ram caught by the horns in a sabek bush. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for an homage offering instead of his son Isaak.

¹⁶ saying, By myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, Because thou hast done this, and for my sake hast not spared thy beloved son; ¹⁷ with blessings I will indeed bless thee; and I will multiply thy seed abundantly as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the sea shore: and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their adversaries; ¹⁸ and by the seed of thee all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.

⁴ I am a stranger and sojourner among you, give me therefore the possession of a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead from before me.

⁶ Whereupon Abraham said to him, Beware that thou take not back my son thither. ⁷ The Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my nativity; who spoke to me, and who sware to me saying, "To thee I will give this land and to thy seed;" he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son. ⁸ But if the woman will not come with thee into this land, thou shalt be absolved from this my oath, save that thou must not take my son back thither.

⁸ And Abraham declining died in a good old age, an old man and full of days and he was added to his people.

²⁷ And when they grew up to be young men, Esau was a man skilled in hunting and fond of the field; but Jacob was a man of plain manners and lived at home.

³ Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land. And I will establish my oath which I sware to thy father Abraham

³ Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land. And I will establish my oath which I sware to thy father Abraham ⁴ and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

⁴ and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

²⁴ and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, I am the God of thy father Abraham; Fear not; for I am with thee; and I will bless thee and multiply thy seed for the sake of thy father Abraham.

² And he said, Behold I am grown old and do not know the day of my dissolution; ³ now therefore take thy arms; the quiver and the bow; and go out into the field and hunt game for me ⁴ and make me savory meat such as I love and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

²⁷ And when he came near and kissed him; he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said, Behold the fragrance of my son is like the fragrance of a full field which the Lord hath blessed. ²⁸ Therefore God give thee from the dew of heaven and from the fatness of the land plenty of corn and wine. ²⁹ May nations serve thee; and princes bow down to thee. Be thou lord of thy brother. And let the children of thy father pay thee homage. Cursed be he who curseth thee; and let him who blesseth thee be blessed. ³⁰ Now after Isaak had finished blessing his son Jacob, when Jacob had but just withdrawn from the presence of his father Isaak, Esau his brother came from the chace. ³¹ He also had made savory meat and he brought it to his father and said to him, Arise my father and eat thy son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. ³² And Isaak his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said I am thy son, thy first born Esau. ³³ Then was Isaak absorpt in great amazement and said, Who then is he who hath hunted game and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before thou earnest and have blessed him, and he will be blessed. ³⁴ And when Esau heard the words of his father Isaak he cried with a loud and very bitter cry and said, Bless, I beseech thee, me also, Father. ³⁵ And he said to him, Thy brother hath come deceitfully and taken thy blessing. ³⁶ And Esau said, His name is rightly called Jacob; for lo! he hath now supplanted me a second time. He took from me my rights of primogeniture; and now he hath taken my blessing. Then Esau said to his father, Hast thou not, father, reserved a blessing for me? ³⁷ And Isaak in reply said to Esau, Seeing I have made him thy lord and made all his brethren his servants and have also supported him with corn and wine, what can I do for thee, my son? ³⁸ And Esau said to his father, Hast thou but one blessing, father? Bless, I beseech thee, me also, father. And Isaak being deeply affected, Esau raised his voice and wept. ³⁹ And Isaak his father answered and said to him, Behold thy dwelling shall border on the fatness of the earth and on the dew of heaven from above. ⁴⁰ By thy sword thou shalt live and thou shalt serve thy brother. But the time will come when thou mayst shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.

² Arise and go to Mesopotamia and to the house of Bathuel thy mother's father, and take thence a wife for thyself of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. ³ And may my God bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayst become a multitude of nations. ⁴ And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraham, to thee and thy seed after thee, to inherit this land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.

¹³ And the Lord leaned over it and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaak. Fear not. To thee and to thy seed I will give the land in which thou art sleeping.

¹³ And the Lord leaned over it and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaak. Fear not. To thee and to thy seed I will give the land in which thou art sleeping. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and shall spread abroad to the west and the south, and the north and the east. And by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed, namely by the seed of thee.

¹⁸ and carried off all his substance, and all the goods which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to go to his father Isaak in the land of Chanaan.

⁹ Then Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and the God of my father Isaak, Thou, Lord, who saidst to me, Return to the land of thy nativity, and I will deal well with thee; ¹⁰ let me be satisfied with all the kindness and with all the truth which thou hast shewn to thy servant. For with this staff of mine I crossed the Jordan, but now I am become two camps. ¹¹ Deliver me from the hand of my brother; from the hand of Esau; for I am afraid of him. Peradventure he may come and smite me and the mother with the children. ¹² But thou hast said, I will deal well with thee and make thy seed like the sand of the sea, which, for multitude cannot be numbered.

²⁷ Then Jacob went to his father Isaak, to Mambre, a city of the plain, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraham and Isaak had sojourned.

²⁰ So Joseph's master took and cast him into prison; into the place where the king's prisoners were confined.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the life of my fathers which they sojourned.

³¹ And he said, Swear to me. So he sword to him. And Israel bowed down on the head of his staff.

³ And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me at Louza in the land of Chanaan and blessed me ⁴ and said, Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and make thee a multitude of nations, and I will give thee this land even to thy seed after thee for a perpetual possession. ⁵ Now therefore thy two sons, who have been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasses, like Reuben and Symeon, shall be mine. ⁶ And the issue which thou mayst have after this shall go by the name of their brothers. They shall be enrolled in their inheritances. ⁷ Now when I came out of Syrian Mesopotamia Rachel thy mother died in the land of Chanaan, just as I drew near the race ground of Chabratha on the way to Ephratha. So I buried her in the way of the race ground the same is Bethlehem. ⁸ Then Israel seeing the sons of Joseph said, Who are these with thee? ⁹ And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. Whereupon Jacob said, Bring them near to me that I may bless them. ¹⁰ Now Israel's eyes were dim by reason of old age and he could not see clearly. And when he brought them near to him, he kissed them and embraced them. ¹¹ And Israel said to Joseph, Lo! was I not deprived of thy presence? yet behold God hath shewn me even thy seed. ¹² Then Joseph took them from his knees; and when they had made obeisance to him with their face to the ground, ¹³ Joseph taking his two sons, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left and Manasses in his left hand towards Israel's right, brought them near to him. ¹⁴ But Israel stretching out his right hand laid it on Ephraim's head [now he was the youngest] and his left hand on Manasses' head crossing his hands. ¹⁵ And he blessed them and said, The God whom my fathers Abraham and Isaak worshipped; the God who hath fed me from my youth to this day; ¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth! ¹⁷ Now when Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on Ephraim's head, it appeared amiss to him; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to the head of Manasses. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first born, put thy right hand on his head. ¹⁹ But he refused and said, I know; my son; I know. This indeed will be a people and will be exalted. But his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will be a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day and said, By you Israel will bless saying, God make thee like Ephraim and Manasses. So he put Ephraim before Manasses. ²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, Lo I die. But God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, Lo I die. But God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers. ²² Now to thee exclusively above thy brothers, I give Sikima, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.

¹⁰ A chief shall not fail from Judas. Nor a leader from his loins; Till the things reserved for him shall come; Even He, the expectation of nations.

¹⁸ Waiting continually the salvation of the Lord.

²⁸ All these were the twelve sons of Jacob. And these were the words which their father spoke to them when he blessed them, each according to his peculiar blessing.

³³ And when Jacob had finished this charge to his sons he drew up his feet into the bed and gave up the ghost and was added to his people.

²⁴ Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, but God will assuredly visit you and conduct you out of this land into the land which God with an oath gave to our fathers, Abraham, Isaak and Jacob.

²⁴ Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, but God will assuredly visit you and conduct you out of this land into the land which God with an oath gave to our fathers, Abraham, Isaak and Jacob. ²⁵ And Joseph adjured the children of Israel saying, In the visitation wherewith God will visit you, you shall carry my bones hence with you.

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.

² and she conceived and bore a son. And when they saw that he was a beautiful child they hid him three months. ³ But when they could not conceal him any longer, his mother provided for him a wicker basket and plaistered it with bitumenous pitch and put the child into it and placed it in the stagnant water by the side of the river. ⁴ And his sister watched it at a distance to see what would become of it. ⁵ And the daughter of Pharao came to bathe herself at the river and her maids were walking with her along the bank. And seeing the basket in the stagnant water she sent her maid and had it brought to her. ⁶ And upon opening it she saw in the basket a child weeping. And the daughter of Pharao had compassion on it and said, This is one of the Hebrew children. ⁷ Whereupon his sister said to Pharao's daughter, Shall I call for thee a nurse from among the Hebrews to suckle the child for thee? ⁸ And the daughter of Pharao said, Go. Upon which the girl went and called the child's mother. ⁹ And the daughter of Pharao said to her, Take care of this child for me and suckle it for me; and I will pay thee the wages. So the woman took the child and suckled it; ¹⁰ and when the boy was grown up she brought him to Pharao's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water.

¹⁰ and when the boy was grown up she brought him to Pharao's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water. ¹¹ And after a course of many years, when Moses was become great he went out to his brethren the children of Israel. And as he was observing their distress, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, who was one of his brethren the children of Israel.

¹⁴ To which he replied, Who made thee a ruler or a judge over us? Dost thou mean to kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? Thereupon Moses was alarmed and said, Is the thing become so public? ¹⁵ Now when Pharao heard of this deed he sought to slay Moses, but he withdrew from the presence of Pharao and took up his abode in the land of Madiam. When he came to the land of Madiam he sat down by a well.

⁶ Then he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob. Whereupon Moses turned away his face; for he was afraid to look forward in the presence of God.

¹⁵ Again God said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you. This is my everlasting name and memorial to all generations.

⁵ That they may believe thee that the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob hath appeared to thee,

¹⁹ So after many years, when the king of Egypt was dead, and the Lord said to Moses in Madiam, Go return to Egypt, for all who sought thy life are dead;

¹⁸ behold at this time to-morrow I will pour down a great storm of hail; such as hath never been in Egypt, from the day it was created even to this day. ¹⁹ Now therefore haste and gather in thy cattle and whatever thou hast in the field. For every man and beast, which shall be found in the fields and shall not have come home, on them the hail shall fall and they shall die. ²⁰ Such of the attendants of Pharao as feared the Lord gathered their cattle into houses. ²¹ But such as paid no regard to the word of the Lord left their cattle in the fields.

²⁸ therefore Pharao said, Begone from me. Take heed to thyself not to see my face any more. For the day thou appearest before me thou shalt die. ²⁹ Whereupon Moses said, Thou hast spoken. I will not appear again in thy presence.

⁸ And all these thy servants will come down to me and make obeisance to me and say, Go away thou and all thy people whom thou wouldst take with thee. Then Moses went out from Pharao with indignation

³ Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel and say, On the tenth of this month let them take every one a sheep according to the houses of patriarchal families, every one a sheep for a family; ⁴ and if there be too few in the family to be sufficient for one sheep, let him associate with him his next neighbour. With regard to the number of souls, every one shall collect to him a number sufficient for a sheep. ⁵ Your sheep shall be without blemish, a male and in its first year. You may take either from the lambs or the kids. ⁶ And it shall be kept up by you until the fourteenth day of this month. Then the whole multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it in the evening. ⁷ And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel of the door of the house in which they are to eat it. ⁸ And that night they shall eat the flesh roasted with fire. They shall also eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs. ⁹ You shall not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted with fire, head and feet and carcase together. ¹⁰ Nothing of it shall be left till the morning. And you shall not break a bone of it. And what is left of it till the morning you shall burn with fire. ¹¹ And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord.

¹¹ And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord. ¹² For in that night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. And upon all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance. I am the Lord. ¹³ But the blood shall be to you for a sign on the houses in which you are. And when I see the blood, I will protect you and there shall be no destroying plague among you, when I smite in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ And that day shall be to you for a memorial. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord throughout all your generations. As an everlasting ordinance you shall celebrate it.

²¹ Moses therefore convened the whole senate of the children of Israel and said to them, Go take for yourselves the sheep according to your families and kill the passover; ²² and ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and having dipped it in the blood by the door you shall smear the lintel and the two side posts with some of the blood which is at the door; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. ²³ For the Lord will pass by to smite the Egyptians; and when he shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to smite. ²⁴ And this ordinance you shall keep as a rite established for thee and thy children for ever. ²⁵ And when you come to the land which the Lord will give you as he hath spoken, you must keep up this religious service. ²⁶ And if your children say to you, What is the meaning of this religious service? ²⁷ then you shall say to them, It is the sacrifice of the Passover of the Lord; because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Upon which the people bowed down and worshipped; ²⁸ and the Israelites went and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. ²⁹ And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and even the first born of all the cattle. ³⁰ Whereupon Pharao arose by night he and all his attendants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt; for there was not a family in which there was not one dead.

³⁷ and the Israelites to the number of six hundred thousand men on foot besides women and children began their march from Ramesses to Succoth. ³⁸ And there went up with them a mixed multitude with flocks and herds and cattle in great abundance. ³⁹ And of the dough which they brought out of Egypt they baked unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened: for the Egyptians hurried them away and they could not wait, and they had not dressed any provisions for themselves for the journey. ⁴⁰ Now the sojourning of the Israelites which they and their fathers had sojourned in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹ And at the end of four hundred and thirty years all the host of the Lord came out of the land of Egypt. ⁴² At night there was a watch for the Lord. This watch of the Lord was instituted that very night to bring them out of the land of Egypt. That it might be kept by all the children of Israel throughout their generations,

⁵⁰ Now the children of Israel had done as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron; and when they had done so,

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: ¹⁸ therefore God led the people by a circuitous march to the wilderness; to the Red sea. And in the fifth generation the Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁹ And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph. For with an oath he had adjured the Israelites saying, The Lord will assuredly visit you and you shall carry hence my bones with you.

¹⁹ And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph. For with an oath he had adjured the Israelites saying, The Lord will assuredly visit you and you shall carry hence my bones with you. ²⁰ And the children of Israel removed from Succoth and encamped at Otham on the edge of the wilderness. ²¹ And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them the way, and at night in a pillar of fire.

¹⁰ And as Pharao approached; the children of Israel raising their eyes saw the Egyptians encamping in their rear and were greatly terrified. And the Israelites cried to the Lord, ¹¹ and said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in the land of Egypt, that thou hast brought us out to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us in bringing us out of Egypt? ¹² Is not this what we told thee in Egypt saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it was better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness. 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.

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. ¹⁴ The Lord will fight for you. Be ye therefore silent. ¹⁵ Now the Lord had said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel and let them prepare for marching. ¹⁶ And lift thou up thy staff and stretch forth thy hand over the sea and divide it, and let the children of Israel go into the midst of the sea as on dry ground. ¹⁷ And behold I will embolden the heart of Pharao and of all the Egyptians and they will go in after them. And I shall be glorified by Pharao and by all his army and by his chariots and by his horses. ¹⁸ And all the Egyptians shall know, that I am the Lord when I make myself glorious by Pharao and by his chariots and his horses. ¹⁹ Now the Angel of the Lord who marched before the camp of the Israelites had removed and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud had removed from the front and taken its station in the rear. ²⁰ And when it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and had taken its station; there came on a thick darkness and night intervened so that they did not intermix one with the other during that whole night. ²¹ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord restrained the sea that whole night with a strong south easterly wind and made the sea dry ground; and the water was cleft asunder.

¹³ In thy kindness thou hast been the guide Of this thy people whom thou hast redeemed. By thy power thou hast called them forth to thy holy place for resting. ¹⁴ Nations have heard and are troubled: Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Phylisteim; ¹⁵ The Emirs of Edom are already in commotion; And as for the chiefs of Moab, horror hath seized them: All the inhabitants of Chanaan are appalled. ¹⁶ On them let dread and terror fall. By the greatness of thine arm may they be petrified, till thy people pass through, Lord; till this thy people pass by, whom thou hast purchased. ¹⁷ Introduce and plant them on the mount of thy heritage in the settlement thou hast prepared for thy dwelling, Lord; The sanctuary, Lord, which thy hands have prepared. ¹⁸ The Lord reigneth for ever and for evermore. ¹⁹ Because Pharao's cavalry with chariots and charioteers went into the sea, and the Lord brought upon them the water of the sea; and the Israelites marched in the midst of the sea on dry ground; 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;

¹³ remembering Abraham and Isaak and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself and didst speak saying, I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of heaven for multitude; and didst say that thou wouldst give them all that land, that they should possess it for ever.

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

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long shall this people provoke me? And how long will they disbelieve me, notwithstanding all the miracles which I have done among them?

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

¹⁷ I can point to him, though he is not now; I hail him happy tho" he is not near. A star will arise out of Jacob; There shall rise up a man out of Israel, And he will smite the princes of Moab, And plunder all the sons of Seth:

¹⁰ The Lord your God hath multiplied you; and behold you are this day like the stars of heaven for multitude.

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.

⁵ and that he may establish his covenant which the Lord made with our fathers; with Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob.

⁶² And you shall be left few in number, instead of being, as you were, like the stars of heaven for multitude. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,

¹ After the death of Moses, the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of Nave, the lieutenant of Moses, saying,

¹ Now Joshua son of Nave had sent from Sat tin two young men to spy, saying, Go up, and take a view of the land, and particularly of Jericho. And the two young men, having set out, entered Jericho, and went to the house of a harlot, whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. ² And news being carried to the king of Jericho, saying, Some men of the children of Israel are come here to spy the land, ³ the king of Jericho sent a message to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men, who came to thy house to night; for they are come to spy the land. ⁴ Now the woman had taken the two men, and hid them: so she spoke to the messengers, saying, The men came to me; ⁵ but at dark, when the gate was shutting, the men went out, and I do not know where they are gone. Pursue them: perhaps you may overtake them. ⁶ Now she had taken them up to the top of the house, and concealed them under flax, which was piled up for her on the top of the house. ⁷ And the men pursued them by the way to the Jordan, to the fords, and the gate was shut. ⁸ So when the pursuers were gone after them, she went up to the men, on the top of the house, before they had gone to sleep, ⁹ and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us: ¹⁰ for we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Bed sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly destroyed:

¹⁰ for we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Bed sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly destroyed: ¹¹ and, upon hearing these things, we became faint hearted, and there was no spirit in any of us because of you. Since, then, the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, ¹² swear now to me by the Lord your God, because I shew mercy to you, that you will shew mercy to my father's house; ¹³ and that you will save alive my father's household, my mother, and my brothers, and all my family, and all that belong to them, and that you will deliver my soul from death. ¹⁴ And the men said to her, Our life for yours even to death. Then she said to them. When the Lord delivereth up to you this city, you will deal mercifully and truly with me. ¹⁵ So she lowered them down through a window. ¹⁶ Now she said to them, Flee to the mountains, lest the pursuers meet you, and hide yourself there three days, until they who are in pursuit of you have returned, and afterwards you may go your way. ¹⁷ And the men said to her, We are sincere in the oath which we have sworn to thee. ¹⁸ Behold when we enter any part of the city, thou shalt put up this signal; Thou shalt tye this scarlet rope to the window, through which thou shalt have let us down; and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brothers, and all thy father's household, home to thy house. ¹⁹ And it shall be that whoever goeth out of the door of thy house, into the street, shall incur the guilt of his own death, and we shall be clear of blame in regard to this oath which we have sworn to thee. But for all who are with thee in the house we will be answerable. ²⁰ But if any one injure us, or if thou disclose these our terms, we shall be clear of this oath to thee. ²¹ And she said to them, Let it be as you say. ²² So she dismissed them, and they went away, and came to the hilly country, and stayed there three days. And the pursuers examined all the roads, but did not find them. ²³ Then the two young men turned, and came down from the mountain, and crossed over to Joshua son of Nave, and told him all that had happened to them. ²⁴ And they said to him, Because the Lord hath delivered up all that land into our hands, therefore all the inhabitants of the land are in the utmost consternation because of us.

¹ [Now Jericho was shut up, and barricaded, so that none came out of it, nor went in.] ² Then the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver into thy hand, Jericho, and the king thereof, who is in it, and the mighty men of valour. ³ Therefore array thou the warriors around it.

³ Therefore array thou the warriors around it. ⁴ And when you blow the trumpets,

⁴ And when you blow the trumpets, ⁵ let all the people at the same time shout; and upon their shouting, the walls of the city will fall of their own accord; and all the people shall enter, every one straight forward into the city.

⁵ let all the people at the same time shout; and upon their shouting, the walls of the city will fall of their own accord; and all the people shall enter, every one straight forward into the city. ⁶ Thereupon Joshua son of Nave went to the priests,

⁶ Thereupon Joshua son of Nave went to the priests, ⁷ and spoke to them, saying, Order the people to march round, and encompass the city, and let the warriors march armed before the Lord;

⁷ and spoke to them, saying, Order the people to march round, and encompass the city, and let the warriors march armed before the Lord; ⁸ and let the seven priests, who have the seven holy trumpets, march also before the Lord, and blow a long blast. And let the ark of the covenant of the Lord accompany them.

⁸ and let the seven priests, who have the seven holy trumpets, march also before the Lord, and blow a long blast. And let the ark of the covenant of the Lord accompany them. ⁹ Let the warriors march before, and the priests follow in the rear, after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, blowing the trumpets.

⁹ Let the warriors march before, and the priests follow in the rear, after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, blowing the trumpets. ¹⁰ Then Joshua gave a charge to the people, saying, Shout not, nor let any one hear your voice, till the day when He shall command you to shout. Then you shall shout.

¹⁰ Then Joshua gave a charge to the people, saying, Shout not, nor let any one hear your voice, till the day when He shall command you to shout. Then you shall shout. ¹¹ So when the ark of the covenant had gone round, it straightway returned to the camp, and lodged there.

¹¹ So when the ark of the covenant had gone round, it straightway returned to the camp, and lodged there. ¹² And on the second day Joshua arose, early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord,

¹² And on the second day Joshua arose, early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ¹³ and the seven priests with the seven trumpets, marched on before the Lord and after them came the warriors, and all the rest of the multitude followed the ark of the covenant of the Lord. And the priests sounded the trumpets;

¹³ and the seven priests with the seven trumpets, marched on before the Lord and after them came the warriors, and all the rest of the multitude followed the ark of the covenant of the Lord. And the priests sounded the trumpets; ¹⁴ and all the multitude compassed the city six times, very near, and returned again to the camp. Thus they did six days. ¹⁵ But on the seventh day; they arose very early, and went round the city that day seven times. ¹⁶ And, at the seventh round, the priests sounded the trumpets, and Joshua said to the Israelites, Shout, for the Lord hath delivered up the city to you. ¹⁷ And this city shall be an Anathema. It, and all that are in it, shall be devoted to the Lord of Sabaoth; save Rahab the harlot. Her you shall save alive, and all that are in her house. ¹⁸ But be you very careful to abstain from the Anathema, lest peradventure you through covetousness, take something of what is devoted, and make the camp of the Israelites an Anathema, and destroy us. ¹⁹ All the silver, and the gold, and the brass, and the iron, shall be consecrated to the Lord, and carried to the Lord's treasury. ²⁰ Then the priests sounded the trumpets; and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people together uttered a great, loud, and continued shout, whereupon the whole wall round about fell, and all the people went up into the city.

²² he said to the two young men who had been sent as spies, Go to the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, with all that she hath. ²³ And when the two young men, who had spied the city had gone to the house of the woman, and had brought out Rahab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and her kindred, and all that were with her, and placed them without the camp of Israel, ²⁴ the city was burned with fire, with all that were in it, save the silver, and gold, and the brass, and iron, which they gave to be carried to the treasury of the Lord. ²⁵ So Joshua saved Rahab the harlot, and all her father's household alive. And at this day they dwell among Israel, because she concealed the spies whom Joshua had sent to spy Jericho.

⁴ and they, and their kings with them, came out like the sand of the sea for multitude, with horses and chariots in great abundance.

³ And I took your father Abraham from Beyond the river, and led him through all this land, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaak;

³² Now the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, the bones of Joseph, and they buried them at Sikimoi, in that portion of the field which Jacob purchased of the Amorites who dwelt at Sikimoi, for a hundred lambs, and which he gave to Joseph for an inheritance.

¹ But the children of Israel proceeded again to do evil in the sight of the Lord, when Aod was dead, ² and the Lord delivered Israel into the hand of Jabin king of Chanaan, who reigned in Asor. Now the captain general of his army was Sisara, and he dwelt at Arisoth of the nations. ³ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he oppressed Israel grievously, twenty years. ⁴ Now Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, judged Israel at that time, ⁵ and had taken her seat under the palm grove of Debbora, between Rama and Baithel, on mount Ephraim; and the children of Israel went up to her for judgment. ⁶ And Debbora sent for Barak, son of Abineem, of Kades-Nepthaleim, and said to him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded thee? Go therefore to mount Thabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Nephthaleim, and of the children of Zabulon, ⁷ and I will bring out to thee, to the brook Kison, Sisara the captain general of Jabin's army, with his chariots, and his multitude, and deliver him into thy hands. ⁸ Whereupon Barak said to her, If thou wilt go with me I will go; but if thou will not go, I will not go: for I do not know the day when the Lord would prosper the angel with me.

¹ Then sung Debbora, and Barak son of Abineem, on that day, saying, ² Revelation was revealed in Israel when the people offered thank offerings; Praise ye the Lord. ³ Hear, kings! and give ear, princes! I will sing to I am, to the Lord I am; I will sing to the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁴ Lord! in thy march out of Seir, When thou didst remove from the fields of Edom; The earth trembled, and heaven distilled dew; The clouds also distilled water. ⁵ The mountains shook at the presence of the Lord Eloi, That Sina, at the presence of the Lord God of Israel. ⁶ In the days of Samegar son of Anath; in the days of Jael; They forsook the high, ways and travelled in bye paths; They travelled in crooked winding roads. ⁷ The mighty men of Israel were faint hearted; They were faint hearted till Debbora arose; Until there arose a mother in Israel. ⁸ They had chosen new gods; Then was war made upon the cities of chiefs, if a buckler was seen, or a spear among forty thousand in Israel.

¹ Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Madiam seven years. ² And the hand of Madiam prevailed against Israel, so that because of Madiam, the Israelites made for themselves those dens which are in the mountains, and those caves and strong holds in cliffs. ³ And when the Israelites had sown, Madiam and Amelek came up, and the children of the east came up with them, ⁴ and encamped against them, and destroyed their fruits, all the way to Gaza. In all the land of Israel they did not leave sustenance for life, nor among the herds a bull or a jack ass. ⁵ For they came up with cattle. And their tents were pitched like locusts for multitude: and they and their camels were innumerable. And they came into the land of Israel, and wasted it; ⁶ so that Israel was greatly impoverished by the Madianites. ⁷ And when the children of Israel cried to the Lord because of Madiam, ⁸ the Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, and he said to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel. It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt. I brought you out of a house of your bondage,

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

¹² Now Madiam, and Amalek, and all the children of the east lay along in the valley, like grasshoppers, for multitude, and their camels were innumerable. They were like the sand on the sea shore for multitude.

¹⁹ So Gideon, and the three hundred men who were with him, came to the border of the camp, at the beginning of the middle watch, and having alarmed the guards, they sounded the horns, and shook the pitchers which were in their hands. ²⁰ And when the three companies had sounded the horns, they broke the pitchers, and held the flambeaus in their left hands, and their trumpets in their right, and shouted, A sword for the Lord and for Gideon, ²¹ and stood every man in his place around the camp. And while the whole camp was running, and making signals, and fleeing, ²² they sounded the three hundred horns; and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow throughout the whole camp. And when the host had fled as far as Bethseed, Tagaratha Abelmeoula near Tabath, ²³ the men of Israel assembled from Nephthaleim, and from Aser, and from all Manasses, and pursued Madiam. ²⁴ And Gideon sent messengers through all Ephraim, saying, Haste down to meet Madiam, and take possession of the waters, even to Baithera, and the Jordan. Upon which the men of Ephraim assembled, and, before the Madianites came up, got possession of the waters, even to Baithera, and the Jordan, ²⁵ and they took the princes of Madiam, Oreb and Zeb, and they slew Oreb at Sour Oreb, and Zeb they slew at Jakeph Zeph. And having pursued Madiam, they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gideon, from the border of the Jordan.

⁴ And when Gideon came to the Jordan, and crossed it, he and the three hundred men who were with him, hungry, but still pursuing, ⁵ he said to the men of Sokchoth, Give, I pray you, bread to feed the people who follow me, for they are fainty, and behold I am pursuing Zebee and Salmana, the kings of Madiam. ⁶ And the chiefs of Sokchoth said, Is the hand of Zebee and Salmana now in thy hand, that we should give thy army bread? ⁷ Thereupon Gideon said, For this, when the Lord hath delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, even with those of Barkenim. ⁸ And he went up thence to Phanuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of Phanuel answered him as the men of Sokchoth had done. ⁹ Whereupon Gideon said to the men of Phanuel, When I return in peace, I will demolish that tower. ¹⁰ Now Zebee and Salmana were at Karkar, and their army with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the whole host of the foreign tribes, they who had fallen being a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword.

¹ Now Jephthae, the Galaadite, was at the head of an army. He was the son of a harlot, who bore Jephthae to Galaad. ² Galaad's wife also bore him sons; and when the wife's sons grew up, they thrust out Jephthae, and said to him, Thou shalt have no inheritance in the house of our father; for thou art the son of a concubine. ³ Upon which Jephthae fled from the face of his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob. And there were gathered to Jephthae men of desperate fortunes, who went out with him. ⁴ Now when the children of Ammon came out in array to fight against Israel, ⁵ the elders of Galaad went to bring Jephthae from the land of Tob, ⁶ and they said to him, Come and be our leader that we may fight the Ammonites; ⁷ whereupon Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, Have you not hated me, and driven me from my father's house, and sent me away from you? Why then are you come to me now when you are in distress? ⁸ And the elders of Galaad said to him, It is for this very reason, that we have now come to thee. Therefore thou must come with us, and fight the children of Ammon, and thou shalt be our chief over all the inhabitants of Galaad. ⁹ Then Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, If you take me back to fight the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them up before me, I shall be your chief? ¹⁰ And the elders of Galaad said to him, Let the Lord be witness between us, if we do not according to this thy word. ¹¹ Thereupon Jephthae went with the elders of Galaad, and the people made him head and leader over them. And when Jephthae had repeated all these his terms before the Lord, at Massepha, ¹² he sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come up against me to fight in my land?

¹ And the children of Israel again proceeded to do evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines, forty years. ² Now there was a man of Saraa, a community of the Danites, whose name was Manoe; and his wife was barren, and never had a child. ³ And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, thou art barren and hast never had a child. But thou shalt conceive a son. ⁴ Now therefore be careful not to drink wine, nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing which is unclean. ⁵ For behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and on his head a razor shall not come; for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁶ And the woman went, and told her husband, saying, There came to me a man of God, and his visage was like that of an angel of God, very awful, so that I did not ask him whence he was, nor did he tell me his name. But he said to me, Behold thou art with ⁷ child, and shalt bear a son. Now therefore thou must not drink wine nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing unclean; for the child shall be consecrated to God, from the womb to the day of his death. ⁸ Whereupon Manoe prayed to the Lord, and said, Lord Adonaie! grant me that the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come to us again, and instruct us what we shall do to the child which is to be born. ⁹ And God hearkened to the voice of Manoe, and the angel of God came again to the woman. Now she was sitting in the field, and Manoe her husband was not with her. ¹⁰ So the woman hasted, and ran and told her husband, and said to him, The man hath appeared to me, who came to me before. ¹¹ Upon which Manoe arose, and went with his wife, and when he came to the man, he said to him, Art thou the man who spoke to my wife? And the angel said, I am. ¹² Then Manoe said, Now the thing will come to pass. How is the child to be educated, and what is he to do? ¹³ And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe, He must abstain from all the things which I mentioned to this woman. ¹⁴ He must eat nothing which proceedeth from the vine, nor drink wine, nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing which is unclean. He must observe all that I have commanded her. ¹⁵ Then Manoe said to the angel of the Lord, Let us detain thee here till we set before thee a kid of the goats. ¹⁶ And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe, Though thou detain me I cannot eat of thy victuals; but if thou wouldst offer a whole burnt offering, offer it to the Lord. Because Manoe did not know that he was an angel of the Lord,

²⁴ So the woman bore a son, and called his name Sampson; and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him;

⁵ Then Sampson went down, with his father and his mother to Thamnatha, and when he came to the vineyard of Thamnatha, behold, a young roaring lion met him; ⁶ and the Spirit of two Lord came upon him, and be crushed him as one would a kid; though he bad nothing in his hands. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

⁸ So he smote them in combat with a great slaughter, and went down and dwelt in a hollow of the rock Etam.

¹⁴ And when they came to Jaw hone, the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him; and the cords which were on his arms became like tow, which is burned with fire; and the bands dropped from his hands, ¹⁵ and he found the jaw bone of an ass lying there; so he stretched forth his hand, and took it up, and with it smote a thousand men. ¹⁶ And Sampson said, With the jaw of an ass I have utterly routed them; for with the jaw of an ass I have slain a thousand men. ¹⁷ And when he had done speaking, he threw the jaw out of his hand, and called that place, Slaughter of the jaw. ¹⁸ And being very thirsty he wept before the Lord and said, Thou hast vouchsafed this great deliverance to the hand of thy servant; but now I must die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised. ¹⁹ Whereupon God caused that pool at Jaw to break forth, and water flowed out of it, and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he revived. For this cause the name of that fountain which is at Jaw is now called, The fountain of the invoked. ²⁰ Now when he had judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years,

¹⁹ And when Dalida had lulled Sampson to sleep on her knees, she sent for a man, and be shaved off two seven locks of his bead, and began to humble him; for his strength was gone from him. ²⁰ And when Dalida said, The Philistines are upon thee Sampson! He awoke from his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times heretofore, and rouse myself. He indeed did not know that the Lord had departed from him. ²¹ Then the Philistines seized him and put out his eyes, and carried him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he was kept grinding in the prison house. ²² Now when the hairs of his head began to grow as when he was shaven, 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. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they sung praises to their god, saying, Our god hath delivered our enemy into our hands; him who wasted our land, and multiplied the number of our slain. ²⁵ Now when their heart was elated with joy, they said, Call Sampson from the prison, and let him make sport for us; so they called Sampson from the prison, and be made sport for them; and when they bad beaten him with rods, they set him between two pillars.

²⁵ Now when their heart was elated with joy, they said, Call Sampson from the prison, and let him make sport for us; so they called Sampson from the prison, and be made sport for them; and when they bad beaten him with rods, they set him between two pillars. ²⁶ Then Sampson said to the young man who had hold of his hand, Let go, that I may feel the pillars on which the house resteth, and lean upon them. ²⁷ Now the house was full of men and women; and all the chiefs of the Philistines were there; and on the top of the house there were about three thousand men and women looking at Sampson's sports. ²⁸ Then Sampson wept before two Lord, and said, Adonaie, Lord, remember me, I beseech thee, and strengthen me yet this once more, my God, that I may take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ Then Sampson took bold of the two pillars, on which the house rested, and by which it was supported. And having taken hold of one with his right band, and of the other with his left, ³⁰ be said, Let me die with the Philistines, and strained with all his might, and the house fell upon the chiefs and on all the people in it. So that those whom Sampson slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.

¹² The Lord recompense thy work, and may a full reward be given thee by the Lord God of Israel, to whom thou art come, to put thy trust under his wings.

²⁰ and she conceived, and at the appointed time bore a son, and called his name Samuel, because, said she, I asked him of the Lord God of Sabbaoth.

¹¹ So she left the child there before the Lord, and returned to Armathaim; and the child ministered in the presence of the Lord before Eli the spriest.

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child girded with a linen ephod.

¹ Now when the child Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli the priest [in those days the word of the Lord was precious; there was no distinct vision] ² it came to pass at that time, when Eli was sleeping in his place, his eyes having then begun to be heavy, so that he could not see, ³ and before the lamp of God was replenished, and Samuel was sleeping at the temple, where the ark of God was, ⁴ the Lord called, Samuel! Samuel! Whereupon he said, Here I am, ⁵ and ran to Eli, and said, Here I am, for thou didst call me. And he said, I did not call thee. Return, and go to sleep. So he returned and went to sleep. ⁶ And the Lord again called Samuel! Samuel! Whereupon he went to Eli, a second time, and said, Here I am; for thou didst call me. And he said I did not call thee, Return, and go to sleep. ⁷ Thus before Samuel knew God, or the word of the Lord was revealed to him, ⁸ the Lord proceeded to call Samuel the third time; whereupon Samuel arose, and went to Eli, and said, Here I am, for thou didst call me. Then Eli conjectured that the Lord had called him; ⁹ therefore he said, Return my son, and go to sleep, and if he call thee thou shalt say, Speak, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went, and lay down in his place, ¹⁰ and the Lord came, and stood over against him, and called him as before. And Samuel said, Speak for thy servant heareth. ¹¹ Then the Lord said to Samuel, Behold I am about to execute my words in Israel, at which both the ears of every one who heareth them shall tingle. ¹² In that day I will bring upon Eli all that I have spoken against his house, I will begin and completely finish.

⁵ Then Samuel said to the people, The Lord is a witness among you, and his anointed is this day a witness, that you have found nothing in my hand. And they said, He is a witness.

¹¹ he sent Jerubaal, and Barak, and Jephthae, and, Samuel, and delivered us out of the hands of our enemies round about, and you dwelt securely.

¹³ So Jonathan clambered up upon his hands and feet, and his armour bearer with him; and they turned back at the sight of Jonathan, and he smote them; and his armour bearer behind him, supplied him. ¹⁴ Now the first slaughter which Jonathan, with his armour bearer made, was about twenty men, with darts, and sling stones, and pebbles picked up from the ground. ¹⁵ And there was a consternation in the camp, and in the field; and all the people who were in Messab, and they who were spoiling, were struck with horror, and would not do any thing; for the earth trembled, and the consternation was from the Lord.

¹ therefore the Lord said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul? As for me, I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill thy horn with oil, and come, let me send thee to Jessai to Bethlehem; for I have seen among his sons a king for me.

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.

¹ Now the Philistines had assembled their armies for battle, and having formed a junction at Sokchoth of Judea, they encamped between Sokchoth and Azeka-ephermen. ² Whereupon Saul and the men of Israel assembled and encamped in the valley, and drew up in array for battle, over against the Philistines. ³ And while the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, with a vale between them, ⁴ there came forth a mighty man from the line of the Philistines. His name was Goliath, of Geth. His height was four cubits and a span. ⁵ And he had a helmet on his head, and was clad with a breast plate of chain work; and the weight of his breast plate was five thousand shekels. It was of brass and steel: ⁶ and the greaves on his legs were of brass; and he had a target of brass between his shoulders. ⁷ And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam: and his javelin was six hundred shekels of iron. And his armour bearer walked before him. ⁸ And he stood, and cried with a loud voice, to the line of Israel, and said to them, Why come ye out to array yourselves for battle against us? Am not I a Philistine; and you Hebrews the servants of Saul? Chuse out for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me. ⁹ And if he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be your slaves; but if I prevail, and kill him, you shall be our slaves, and serve us. ¹⁰ Then the Philistine said, Behold I have now this day defied the army of Israel. Give me a man that we may fight at single combat. ¹¹ When Saul, and all Israel, heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly terrified. ¹² [Omitted] ¹³ [Omitted] ¹⁴ [Omitted] ¹⁵ [Omitted] ¹⁶ [Omitted] ¹⁷ [Omitted] ¹⁸ [Omitted]

³³ And Saul said to David, Thou canst not go against the Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he is a warrior from his youth. ³⁴ And David said to Saul, Thy servant tended his father's flock. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a sheep from the flock, I went out after him, and smote him, and rescued it out of his mouth. ³⁵ And if he rose up against me, I seized him by the throat, and smote, and killed him. ³⁶ Thy servant hath slain a lion and a bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them. Shall I not 2:0 and smite him, and remove, this day, a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised, that he should defy the army of the living God?

⁵¹ And David ran, and stood upon him, and took his sword, and killed him, and cut off his head. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled; ⁵² and the men of Israel, and Juda, arose, and shouted, and pursued them to the entrance of Geth, and to the gate of Ascalon. And the wounded of the Philistines fell on the road to the gates, all the way to Geth, and even to Akkaron.

¹ And David fled from Navath in Rama, and came to Jonathan, and said, What have I done? And what is my offence? And wherein have I sinned in the sight of thy father, that he seeketh my life?

¹ Then David departed thence, and having escaped, he went to the cave Odollam. And when his brethren, and the house of his father heard it, they went down to him there.

¹⁷ And the king said to the light infantry who stood before him, Go near and put to death the priests of the Lord, because their hand was with David; and because they knew that he was fleeing, and did not inform me. And when the servants of the king refused to lift their hands against the priests of the Lord, ¹⁸ the king said to Doek, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. Thereupon Doek, the Syrian, turned and slew the priests of the Lord that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing an ephod. ¹⁹ Then he smote Nomba the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infant and suckling, with the cattle, and the asses, and the sheep.

¹⁵ Even when David saw that Saul was coming to seek him, when he was on the desert mountain in Kaina Ziph,

¹⁹ Then the Ziphites went up from the wilderness to Saul, on the mount, and said, Behold doth not David hide himself near us at Messara, at the straits by Kaina, on mount Echala, which is to the right of Jessamon?

²³ Take a view therefore, and know, and I will go down with you, and if he be in that country I will search him out among all the thousands of Juda.

¹ And when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, and was told by men, saying, David is in the wilderness of Engaddi, ² he took with him three thousand men, selected out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of Saddaiem. ³ And when he came to the sheepcots by the way side, where there was a cave, Saul went into it to prepare himself. Now David and his men had taken up their abode in the inner part of the cave.

¹ Again the Ziphites came from the wilderness to Saul, on the mount, and said, Behold, David is lurking with us on mount Echela, in front of Jessemon.

³ Now Samuel was dead and all Israel had bewailed him, and buried him at Armathaim in his city. And Saul had driven from the land the belly speakers, and the diviners; ⁴ and the Philistines assembled, and came and encamped at Sonam; whereupon Saul assembled all Israel, and they encamped at Gelbua. ⁵ And when Saul saw the camp of the Philistines he was afraid, and his heart was exceedingly dismayed. ⁶ And Saul inquired of the Lord; but the Lord did not answer him; neither by dreams, nor by manifestations, nor by prophets. ⁷ Then Saul said to his servants, Seek out for me a woman who is a belly speaker, and I will go to her and consult her. And his servants said to him, Behold there is a woman, a belly speaker, at Endor. ⁸ Thereupon Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothes, and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night, and said to her, Consult for me, I pray thee, the belly speaker, and bring up for me him whom I shall mention to thee. ⁹ And the woman said to him, Behold thou knowest what Saul hath done; how he hath rooted out all the belly speakers, and the diviners, out of the land; why then dost thou lay a trap for my life, to put me to death? ¹⁰ And Saul sword to her saying, As the Lord liveth, there shall no mischief befal thee on this account. ¹¹ Then the woman said, Whom shall I bring up for thee? And when he had said, Bring up Samuel for me, ¹² the woman saw Samuel, and cried with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, Why hast thou deceived me? Thou indeed art Saul. ¹³ And the king said to her, Fear not. Tell me, Whom hast thou seen? And the woman said to him, I saw gods coming up out of the earth. ¹⁴ And he said to her, What didst thou discover? And she said to him, An erect man coming up out of the earth, and he had a mantle thrown around him. So Saul knew that this was Samuel, and he bowed down on his face to the ground, and made obeisance to him. ¹⁵ And Samuel said, Why hast thou troubled me, that I should come up? And Saul said, I am in great affliction. The Philistines are making war on me, and God hath departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by the agency of prophets, nor by dreams. Now therefore I have called thee, to let me know what I shall do. ¹⁶ And Samuel said, Why dost thou ask me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is with thy neighbour? ¹⁷ The Lord indeed hath done to thee as the Lord spoke by my agency. And the Lord will rend the kingdom out of thy hand, and give it to thy neighbour, even to David. ¹⁸ Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and didst not execute the fierceness of his wrath on Amelek, therefore the Lord hath done this thing to thee this day. ¹⁹ And the Lord will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines, and to-morrow thou, and thy sons with thee, shall fall, and the Lord will deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. ²⁰ At this Saul shuddered, and fell at his full length on the ground, and was struck with horror at the words of Samuel, and there was no more any strength in him, fur he had not eaten bread that whole day, and that whole night. ²¹ Then the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was in great trepidation, she said to him, Behold I pray thee, thy servant hath hearkened to thy voice. I put my life in my hand, and heard the words which thou didst speak to me; ²² now therefore, hearken, I pray thee, to the voice of thy servant, and let me set before thee a morsel of bread, and eat that thou mayst have strength; for thou art to travel. ²³ And when he declined eating, his servants and the woman pressed him; so he hearkened to their voice, and arose from the ground, and sat on a seat. ²⁴ Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, so she hasted, and slew it, and she took flour, and mixed it, and baked unleavened cakes, ²⁵ and set them before Saul and his servants. And when they had eaten, they arose and departed that night,

⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. ⁵ Seven years and six months he reigned at Chebron over Juda, and he reigned thirty three years, over all Israel and Juda, at Jerusalem. ⁶ When David and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites who inhabited that land, it was said to David, Thou shalt not come here; for the blind and the lame are opposed to it, saying, David shall not come here. ⁷ So when David took the fortress, Zion, the same is the city of David, ⁸ on that day David said, Whoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him also dispatch with a dagger those lame and those blind, even them who hate the soul of David: for this cause they say, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house of the Lord. ⁹ And David made his abode in the fort, so it was called the city of David. And David built the city, around the citadel and his own house. ¹⁰ And David advanced in prosperity, and grandeur, and the Lord Almighty was with him. ¹¹ And Chiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, with cedar timber, and carpenters, and masons, and they built a house for David. ¹² When David perceived that the Lord had prepared him to be king over Israel, and that his kingdom was exalted for the sake of his people Israel, ¹³ David took still more wives and concubines out of Jerusalem, after he came from Chebron. And David had still more sons and daughters born to him. ¹⁴ Now these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem. Sammus, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, ¹⁵ and Ebear, and Elisue, and Naphek, and Jephies, ¹⁶ and Elisama, and Elidae, and Eliphalath, Samae, Jesibath, Nathan, Galamaan, Jebar, Theesus, Eliphalat, Naged, Naphek, Jonathan, Leasamus, Baalimath, Eliphaath. ¹⁷ When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and when David heard he went down to the fort. ¹⁸ And the Philistines came, and made an irruption into the valley of the Titans. ¹⁹ Whereupon David inquired of the Lord saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? Wilt thou deliver them into my hands? And the Lord said to David, Go up; for I will assuredly deliver the Philistines into thy hands. ²⁰ So David went out through Upper breaks, and smote the Philistines there. Whereupon David said, The Lord broke through the Philistine enemies before me, as waters burst through mounds. For this cause the name of that place, was called Upper Breaks. ²¹ And there they left their gods; and David and the men who were with him took them. ²² Again the Philistines proceeded to come up, and made another irruption into the valley of the Titans. ²³ And when David inquired of the Lord, the Lord said, Thou shalt not go up to meet them in front. Wheel about from them, and come upon them near Wailing. ²⁴ And when thou nearest the sound of a rustling in the grove of Wailing, then thou shalt go down against them; for the Lord will then go out before thee, to smite in the battle of the Philistines. ²⁵ And David did as the Lord commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Gabaon to the land of Gazera.

¹¹ from the days I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I will give thee rest from all thine enemies, and the Lord will tell thee that thou art to build a house for him. ¹² And it shall come to pass when thy days are fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, that I will raise up after thee the seed of thee who shall spring from thy loins, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will raise up again his throne for ever. ¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And when his iniquity shall come, I will correct him with a rod of men, and with scourges of the children of men, ¹⁵ but I will not withdraw my mercy from him as I withdrew it from them whom I removed from my presence. ¹⁶ His house and his kingdom shall be established for ever before me and his throne shall be raised up again for ever. ¹⁷ According to all these words and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

¹ After this David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took the country, appurtenant to the cities, out of the hand of the Philistines.

¹ After this David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took the country, appurtenant to the cities, out of the hand of the Philistines. ² David also smote Moab, and measured them with lines, having caused them to dwell in the country, and there were two lines to be put to death, and two lines to be saved alive. So Moab became servants to David, and brought him gifts.

² David also smote Moab, and measured them with lines, having caused them to dwell in the country, and there were two lines to be put to death, and two lines to be saved alive. So Moab became servants to David, and brought him gifts. ³ David also smote Adraazar, son of Raab king of Suba. As he was going to establish his authority over the river Euphrates,

³ David also smote Adraazar, son of Raab king of Suba. As he was going to establish his authority over the river Euphrates, 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.

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 And when Syria of Damascus came to assist Adraazar king of Suba, David smote of the Syrians twenty two thousand men,

⁵ And when Syria of Damascus came to assist Adraazar king of Suba, David smote of the Syrians twenty two thousand men, ⁶ and David placed a garrison in Syria at Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought him gifts. So the Lord preserved David withersoever he went.

⁶ and David placed a garrison in Syria at Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought him gifts. So the Lord preserved David withersoever he went. ⁷ And David took the breastplates of gold, which were on the servants of Adraazar, king of Suba and brought them to Jerusalem. Now these were they which Susakim king of Egypt took when he came up against Jerusalem, in the days of Roboam son of Solomon.

⁷ And David took the breastplates of gold, which were on the servants of Adraazar, king of Suba and brought them to Jerusalem. Now these were they which Susakim king of Egypt took when he came up against Jerusalem, in the days of Roboam son of Solomon. ⁸ And from Metebak, and from the principal cities of Adraazar, king David took brass in great abundance, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the lavers, and all the vessels of brass.

⁸ And from Metebak, and from the principal cities of Adraazar, king David took brass in great abundance, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the lavers, and all the vessels of brass. ⁹ And when Thoou, the king of Emath, heard that David had smitten all the army of Adraazar,

⁹ And when Thoou, the king of Emath, heard that David had smitten all the army of Adraazar, ¹⁰ Thoou sent his son Jedduram to king David to salute him courteously, and congratulate him for having fought Adraazar, and smitten him; for he was at enmity with Adraazar. And Jedduram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass.

¹⁰ Thoou sent his son Jedduram to king David to salute him courteously, and congratulate him for having fought Adraazar, and smitten him; for he was at enmity with Adraazar. And Jedduram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass. ¹¹ And king David dedicated these to the Lord, with the silver and the gold which he had dedicated out of all the cities which he had subdued;

¹¹ And king David dedicated these to the Lord, with the silver and the gold which he had dedicated out of all the cities which he had subdued; ¹² Out of Idumea and Moab, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines, and Amelek, and the spoils of Adraazar, son of Raab king of Suba.

¹² Out of Idumea and Moab, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines, and Amelek, and the spoils of Adraazar, son of Raab king of Suba. ¹³ Thus David made himself renowned. And when he returned, he smote of the Idumeans at Gebelim, to the number of eighteen thousand,

¹³ Thus David made himself renowned. And when he returned, he smote of the Idumeans at Gebelim, to the number of eighteen thousand, ¹⁴ and placed garrisons in Idumea, throughout the whole extent of it. So all the Idumeans became servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

¹⁴ and placed garrisons in Idumea, throughout the whole extent of it. So all the Idumeans became servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went. ¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel. And David executed judgment and justice over all his people. ¹⁶ And Joab son of Saruia was at the head of the army, and Josaphat son of, Achilud was recorder, ¹⁷ and Sadok, son of Achitob, and Achimelech son of Abiathar, were priests; and Sasa was the scribe; ¹⁸ and Banaias son of Jodae was counsellor; and the Chelethites, and the Phelethites, and David's sons, were the palace guards.

¹⁵ Now when the Syrians saw that they had given way before Israel, they assembled together, ¹⁶ and Adraazar sent and collected the Syrians from the banks of the river Chalamak, and they came to Ailam, with Sobak, the commander in chief of Adraazar's army, at their head. ¹⁷ When this was told David, he assembled all Israel, and crossed the Jordan, and came to Ailam; and the Syrians drew up in array against David, and fought him. ¹⁸ But the Syrians fled before Israel, and David destroyed of Syria seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen. He smote also Sobak the commander in chief of the army, so that he died there. ¹⁹ And when all the kings who were vassals of Adraazar saw that they were smitten before Israel, they revolted, and joined Israel and served them. So Syria was intimidated from aiding the Ammonites any more.

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

¹⁶ Jesbi, who was of the race of Rapha, and the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels, brass weight, and who was clad in armour, thought to have smitten David; ¹⁷ but Abessa, son of Saruia, came to his assistance, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then David's men sword, saying, Thou shalt not go out with us any more to battle, lest thou extinguish the lamp of Israel.

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¹² Thus saith the Lord, Behold thou shalt depart from me and when thou shalt enter the city Sarira, thy maids will come out to meet and tell thee, The child is dead, For thus saith the Lord, ¹³ But this child shall be bewailed with the lamentation, Alas! Lord: because in him there hath been found something good respecting the Lord.

³ Go hence eastward and hide thyself by the brook Chorrath which is before the Jordan;

²² And so it came to pass and the child cried. ²³ Then Elias brought it down from the upper chamber, and delivering him to his mother, said, See, thy son liveth. ²⁴ Whereupon the woman said, Now I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.

⁴ so that when Jezabel smote the prophets of the Lord, Abdiou took a hundred men who were prophets, and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.

¹³ Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel slew the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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

¹ And when Achab told his wife Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had slain the prophets with the sword,

³ At this Elias was terrified, and arose and went where his inclination led him, and coming to Bersabee, in the land of Juda, he left his servant there,

⁹ and having there gone into the cave and taken up his lodging there, behold a word of the Lord came to him and said, Why art thou come hither Elias? ¹⁰ To which he replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel hath forsaken thee. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I alone am left and they seek my life to take it.

¹⁴ To which Elias replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it.

¹⁰ and suborn two wicked men and let them testify against him saying, He renounced God and the king. Then let him be led out and stoned to death.

¹³ and there came in two wicked men and sat over against him and testified against him saying, Thou hast renounced God and the king. Upon which they led him out of the city, and stoned him with stones so that he died. ¹⁴ Then they sent to Jezabel saying, Nabuthi hath been stoned and is dead. ¹⁵ When Jezabel heard she said to Achab, Arise and take possession of the vineyard of Nabuthi the Jezraelite, who would not give it to thee for money, for he is not alive, for he is dead.

²⁴ Thereupon Sedekias son of Chanaan went near and smote Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord is that which hath spoken by thee?

²⁷ and tell Joas, the ruler's son, to put him in ward and feed him with the bread of affliction, and water of affliction, till I return in peace.

⁸ And they said to him, He was a hairy man, girt about the loins with a leathern girdle. Upon which he said, This is Elias the Thesbite.

¹¹ And as they proceeded on conversing as they went, behold a chariot of fire, with horses of fire, made a separation between them; and Elias was carried up with a whirlwind as it were into heaven.

¹⁶ Then they said to him, Behold there are with thy servants fifty valiant men. Let them, we pray thee, go and seek thy master. Perhaps a blast of the Lord hath lifted him up and cast him by the Jordan, either on one of the mountains, or one of the hills. And Elisha said, You shall not send. ¹⁷ But when they pressed him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. So they sent fifty men. And when they had searched three clays, but did not find him,

²³ Then he went up thence to Baithel, and as he was going up he met in the way, little boys who had come out of the city, and who mocked him saying, Ascend bald head! Ascend!

²⁷ But when she came to Elisha on the mount, she took hold of his feet, whereupon Giezi went near to push her back. But Elisha said, Let her alone: for her soul is full of sorrow and the Lord hath hid the cause from me and hath not told me. ²⁸ Then she said, Did I ask a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me. ²⁹ Thereupon Elisha said to Giezi, Gird up thy loins and take my staff in thy hand and go. If thou meetest a man salute him not. And if any man salute thee, return him no answer. And lay my staff on the face of the child. ³⁰ But the mother of the child said, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth I will not leave thee. So Elisha arose and followed her. ³¹ Now Giezi had gone before her and laid the staff on the child's face; but there was no voice, nor attention. So when he came back and met him he said to him, The child is not awaked. ³² And when Elisha came to the house, behold the child was dead and laid upon his bed. ³³ Then Elisha went into the house and shut the door upon them two; and having prayed to the Lord ³⁴ he went up and lay down upon the child and put his mouth on the child's mouth, and his eyes on its eyes, and his hands on its hands, and bent himself down upon it; and the flesh of the child was warmed. ³⁵ Then he withdrew, and when he had walked backward and forward in the house, he went up and bent himself upon the child seven times, and the child opened its eyes. ³⁶ Whereupon Elisha called Giezi and said, Call the Somanite. So he called her. And when she came to him, Elisha said, Take up thy son. ³⁷ Thereupon she came and fell at his feet, and having made obeisance to him by bowing to the ground she took up her son and went out.

¹⁶ And Elisha said, Fear not; for there are more with us than with them. ¹⁷ Then Elisha prayed and said, Lord I beseech thee, open his eyes that he may see. Accordingly the Lord opened his eyes and he looked and lo! the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha. ¹⁸ And as the Syrians were coming down upon him Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, Smite I pray thee, this people with dimness of sight. And when he had smitten them with dimness of sight, according to the word of Elisha,

³² Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And when the king despatched a man before him; before the messenger came to him he said to the elders, Do you see that this son of a murderer hath sent to take off my head? Look! when the messenger cometh, shut the door and stop him there. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

⁷ And when he said, Let them take a fig cake and lay it on the boil, and he will recover, ⁸ Ezekias said to Esaias, What is the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day? ⁹ To which Esaias replied, This is the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will perform the word which he hath spoken, The shadow shall advance ten steps, or go back ten steps. ¹⁰ And Ezekias said, It is an easy matter for the shadow to decline ten steps. No. Let the shadow return upon the steps, ten steps backwards. ¹¹ Then Esaias the prophet cried to the Lord, and the shadow returned on the steps, ten steps backward.

²⁵ Like him there was no king before him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; nor did there arise after him any one like him. ²⁶ Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fervency of his great wrath with which he was incensed against Juda at the provocations with which Manasses had provoked him. ²⁷ So the Lord said, I will remove Juda also from my presence as 1 have removed Israel; and I will cast off this city of Jerusalem which I chose, and this house of which I said, My name shall be there. ²⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Josias and all that he did, are they not written in the journal of the kings of Juda? ²⁹ In those days when Pharao Nechao king of Egypt was going up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates, Josias went out to meet him. And Nechao slew him at Mageddo when he saw him.

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

⁹ And now, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts and knoweth every thought. If thou seek him, he will be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will at last forsake thee.

¹⁴ But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be enabled to shew such liberality to thee. For all things are thine and of thine own we have given thee. ¹⁵ For we before thee are strangers and sojourners as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow and there is no fixed abiding.

¹¹ and Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to save with many or with few. Strengthen us, O Lord our God; for on thee is our reliance; and in thy name we are come against this great multitude. Lord our God, let not man prevail against thee. ¹² So the Lord smote the Ethiopeans before Juda. And the Ethiopeans fled, ¹³ and Asa and his people pursued them as far as Gedor. And the Ethiopeans fell so that they could not recover themselves; for they were trampled down before the Lord, and before his army. And when they had taken immense spoils, ¹⁴ and smitten the towns about Gedor [for the terror of the Lord was upon them] and had rifled all their cities [for there was much plunder in them]

¹ But in the thirty eighth year of the reign of Asa, the king of Israel came up against Juda, and began building Rama, in order to stop all outlet and inlet to Asa king of Juda; ² whereupon Asa took silver and gold, out of the treasuries of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and sent to the son of Ader king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying, ³ Make a covenant between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father. Behold I have sent thee gold and silver, come and remove from me Baasa king of Israel and let him depart from me. ⁴ Accordingly Son Ader hearkened to king Asa and sent the generals of his army against the cities of Israel, and smote Aion and Dan and Abelmain, and all the territories adjacent to Nephthaleim. ⁵ At the news of this Baasa quitted building, and put a stop to the work. ⁶ Whereupon king Asa took all Juda, and carried away the stones of Rama and the timber thereof, with which Baasa was building, and with them built Gabae and Maspha. ⁷ At that time Anani the prophet, came to Asa king of Juda and said to him, Seeing thou hast put thy trust in the king of Syria, and hast not relied on the Lord thy God, therefore the army of the king of Syria hath escaped out of thy hand. ⁸ Were not the Ethiopeans and the Lybians to be dreaded for their huge army? For their prowess, for their horsemen, for their immense multitude? Yet because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand. ⁹ For the eyes of the Lord look throughout the whole earth, to strengthen them whose heart is perfect towards him. In this matter thou hast acted foolishly. Henceforward thou shalt have war. ¹⁰ Upon this Asa was enraged at the prophet, and committed him to prison. Because this gave offence, Asa proceeded to outrage against the people at the same time.

⁶ and said, O Lord the God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above? Thou indeed rulest over all the kingdoms of the nations: and in thy hand is the majesty of power; and there is none who can withstand thee. ⁷ Art not thou the Lord who destroyed the inhabitants of this land from before thy people Israel? Thou indeed didst give it to the seed of Abraham thy beloved, forever: ⁸ and they have settled therein, and built therein a sanctuary to thy name, saying, ⁹ If evils come upon us, the sword, judgment, pestilence or famine, we will stand before this house and before thee; for thy name is on this house; and cry to thee, because of the affliction, and thou wilt hear and save. ¹⁰ And now behold the Ammonites and the Moabites and mount Seir, through whose territories thou didst not permit Israel to pass, when they were coming out of the land of Egypt, for they turned from them and did not destroy them; ¹¹ yet now behold they are attempting to come out against us, to drive us from this inheritance of ours which thou hast given us. ¹² Lord our God, wilt thou not judge them? Because we have not power to withstand this great multitude which is coming against us, and do not know what to do with them, we can only have our eyes on thee. ¹³ And while all the chiefs of Juda were standing before the Lord, with their wives and children; ¹⁴ upon Oziel the son of Zacharias of the Banaites; the sons of Eliel, the son of Matthanias the Levite, one of the sons of Asaph; upon him came the spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation, ¹⁵ and he said, Hear all ye chiefs of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Josaphat! Thus saith the Lord to you, Be not terrified nor dismayed because of this vast multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's only. ¹⁶ Go down against them to-morrow. Behold they are coming up by the ascent of Asseis, and you will find them at the head of the river of the wilderness of Jeriel. ¹⁷ You have not to fight. Consider these things, and see the salvation of the Lord with you. Juda and Jerusalem, be not terrified nor afraid to go out to-morrow to meet them; for the Lord is with you. ¹⁸ Thereupon Josaphat bowed down on his face, and while all the chiefs of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem prostrated themselves before the Lord to worship him, ¹⁹ the Levites of the sons of Kaath, and of the sons of Kore, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel, in the loudest strains. 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 Then he consulted with the people, and appointed the musicians, and them who sing praises, to give thanks and to sing the holy songs of praise. So marching at the head of the army, they sung the hymn, praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever. ²² And when they began the song of thanksgiving and praise, the Lord set a fighting the Ammonites against Moab and Mount Seir, who were going out against Juda; And when they were repelled, ²³ the Ammonites and Moab rose upon the inhabitants of Seir to exterminate and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they rose up one against the other till they were utterly destroyed. ²⁴ So when Juda came to the watch tower of the wilderness, and looked and took a view of the multitude, behold they all lay dead on the ground. Not one had escaped. ²⁵ And when Josaphat and his people went to gather the spoil, they found cattle in abundance, and furniture and spoils and precious utensils. And when they had gathered the spoils [now they were three days collecting them, for they were many]

²¹ Upon this they fell upon him and stoned him by the command of the king, in the court of the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ But while the expresses were passing from city to city, through mount Ephraim, and Manasses, till they came to Zabulon, they were treated as deriders and mockers.

²⁰ But when Ezekias the king, and Esaias son of Amos the prophet addressed a prayer concerning these things, and cried to heaven, 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. ²² And when the Lord had saved Ezekias, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of the hands of Sennacherim, king of Assur, and out of the hand of all men, and had given them rest all around,

³¹ But in his transactions with the ambassadors from the chiefs of Babylon, who were sent to him to make inquiry touching the miracle which had been done in the land, the Lord left him to himself in order to try him, to know all that were in his heart.

¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy.

⁷ Thou art the Lord God. Having made choice of Abram, thou didst lead him out from the country of the Chaldees and give him the name of Abraham. ⁸ And finding his heart faithful before thee, thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites, even to his seed, and hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.

¹¹ thou didst cleave the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry ground, but those who were pursuing thou didst cast into the deep like a stone in boisterous water.

²³ And having multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, thou broughtest them into the land which thou hadst promised their fathers; and they took possession of it.

¹¹ But put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath, he will indeed openly renounce thee. ¹² Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold all that he hath I deliver into thine hand; but himself thou must not touch. So Satan went out from the Lord,

³ And the Lord said to Satan, Thou hast therefore attended to my servant Job; that there is not of those on the earth a man like him, guiltless, true, unblameable, abstaining from all evil. Still he retaineth his innocence; so that thou hast ordered the destruction of his property, without accomplishing thy purpose. ⁴ In reply to which Satan said to the Lord, Skin for skin. All that a man hath he will give for his life. ⁵ Only put forth thy hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, he will indeed openly renounce thee. ⁶ Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold I deliver him up to thee, only preserve his life.

²⁰ In famine he will deliver thee from death, and in battle save thee from the edge of the sword.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal,

⁵ But the mirth of the wicked is sudden ruin, and the joy of transgressors, destruction,

¹¹ They abide continually like a flock, and their little ones frolick about them. ¹² They take up the psaltery and kithara, and are charmed with the sound of the song; ¹³ and having spent their life in festivity, they are composed to rest in the peaceful grave. ¹⁴ Yet he saith to the Lord, Depart from me, I desire not to know thy ways.

²¹ But be careful not to do improper things: for by such a conduct thou wilt extricate thyself from distress.

¹⁰ And the Lord increased Job. upon his making supplication for his friends, the Lord forgave them their sins, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

⁸ Away from me, all ye workers of iniquity. For the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping;

⁸ I saw the Lord continually before me. Because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved;

³² It is thou, God, who girdest me with strength, and hast made my way spotless; ³³ who makest my feet like those of a hind, and who steadiest me on high places; ³⁴ who instructest my hands for battle, and hast made my arms like a bow of steel,

¹³ I am confident of seeing the goodness of the Lord, in the land of the living.

⁶ By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

¹⁶ Better is the little which a righteous man hath, than the abundant wealth of sinners.

¹² Hearken, Lord, to my prayer: give ear to my supplication: hold not thy peace at my tears: since I am a sojourner in the land; and a stranger as all my fathers were;

¹¹ Why art thou, my soul, cast down; and why disquietest thou me? Trust in God, for I shall praise him; he is the health of my countenance and my God.

² When thy hand had extirpated nations, thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict nations and drive them out. ³ For they took not possession of the land with their own sword: nor was it their own arm that saved them: but thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou tookest pleasure in them. ⁴ Thou, who didst command the deliverances of Jacob; even thou art my king and my God. ⁵ By thee we can push down our enemies, and through thy name, scorn them who rise up against us. ⁶ For in mine own bow I will not put trust, nor is it mine own sword that can save me.

⁹ The heads of families assembled with the God of Abraham. Because the mighties of the land belong to God, they have been exceedingly exalted.

⁴ to God let me commend my words. In God I have trusted all the day long: I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

¹¹ And man will say, Since there is indeed a reward for the righteous, there is a God who judgeth those on the earth.

⁶ He it is who turned the sea into dry land; that they might march on foot through a flood. There let us rejoice in him

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.

⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, confusion hath covered my face.

²⁰ My soul expected reproach and misery. I waited for a condoler, but there was none; for a comforter, but none could I find.

¹⁸ It is but for their frauds thou hast dealt thus with them. Thou hast overthrown them by their exaltation.! ¹⁹ how they were for destruction! They are gone in a moment! They perished for their iniquity! ²⁰ As a dream of one awaked out of sleep. Thou, Lord, in thy city wilt spurn their ghost;

²⁸ It is therefore good for me to cleave to God; to place my hope upon the Lord: that I may publish all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

¹³ He had cleft the sea and led them through it; he had stayed the waters as in a bottle.

²² Because they believed not in God, nor trusted in his salvation.

³² Notwithstanding all these things they still sinned, and did not believe his wonderous works;

¹⁰ Because one day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be in an abject state in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

⁴⁸ Is there any man who can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the mansion of the dead?

⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of thy servants; that of many nations, which I retain in my bosom; ⁵¹ that with which thine enemies, O Lord, have reproached; with which they have reproached the redemption of thine anointed one.

¹³ Upon an asp and a basilisk thou shalt tread: and trample down a lion and a dragon.

⁶ Moses and Aaron among his priests; and Samuel among them, who invoke his name; called on the Lord, and he hearkened to them.

³ Sing praises to his holy name. Let the heart of them, who seek the Lord, be glad. ⁴ Seek the Lord and be confirmed in strength; seek his face continually.

⁹ the covenant which he made with Abraham, and that oath of his to Isaak, ¹⁰ which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant; ¹¹ saying, To thee I will give the land of Chanaan to be the lot of your inheritance.

¹⁷ he had sent before them a man, Joseph was sold for a servant. ¹⁸ They had humbled his feet with fetters, his life was spent in irons;

⁹ He rebuked the Red sea and it was dried up; and he led them through the deep as through a wilderness; ¹⁰ and saved them from the hand of those who hated them, and delivered them out of an enemy's hand. ¹¹ The water covered those who afflicted them, not an individual of them was left.

²¹ They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt; ²² wonderful things in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red sea:

²⁴ When they despised the pleasant land and did not confide in his word:

¹ An Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt: of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people; ² Judea became his sanctuary; Israel his dominion. ³ The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams: the hills, like lambs of the flock. ⁵ What ailed thee, sea, that thou fleddest? And thee, Jordan, that thou turnedst back?

⁶ Having the Lord for my helper, I will not fear what man can do to me.

¹⁰ I have sought thee with my whole heart; let me not be driven from thy commandments.

¹⁹ I am a sojourner in this land, hide not thy commandments from me.

¹³ to him who divided the Red sea into parts; for his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁴ And led Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy endureth forever: ¹⁵ but shook off Pharao and his hosts into the Red sea; for his mercy endureth forever:

¹ On understanding. By David when he was in the cave. A Prayer. With my voice I cried to the Lord; to the Lord I made supplication with my voice. ² Before him I pour out my prayer: before him I will declare my affliction. ³ When my spirit fainted thou knewest my paths. In the way I was going they hid a snare for me. ⁴ I looked to the right; and observed that none was there, who knew me. Flight was cut off from me; and is he not earnestly seeking my life? ⁵ To thee, O Lord, I cried and said, Thou art my hope; my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Attend to my supplication; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Bring my soul out of prison, that I may adore thy name, Lord. Let the righteous wait for me, till thou shalt reward me.

¹ By David. On Goliath. Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight. ² He is my mercy and my refuge; my support and my deliverer, my protector in whom I trusted, who subdueth the people under me.

¹⁰ to him who giveth salvation to kings, who hath redeemed his servant David from the hurtful sword.

¹⁷ Them who love me, I love: and they who seek me shall find me.

¹⁸ A wicked man doth works of injustice: but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

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

³ As silver and gold are tried in a furnace; so are chosen hearts, by the Lord.

²⁷ The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord; because they offer them unrighteously.

³ A prudent man seeing the wicked severely punished instructeth himself: but the foolish passed heedlessly by and were punished.

¹⁸ If thou indeed keep these instructions: they will be a progeny to thee and thy hope shall not perish.

¹² When ills approach, a prudent man is hidden: but the simple pass on to their sorrow.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loved. I sought him but did not find him. I called him but he made me no answer. ² I will rise now and take a circuit in the city; in the places of publick resort and in the streets; and seek him whom my soul loveth. I sought him but did not find him. ³ The watchmen who take their rounds in the city, met me. Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? ⁴ It was but a little while after I parted from them, till I found him whom my soul loveth. I took hold of him and did not let him go till I brought him to my mother's house and into the chambers of her who conceived me.

⁹ though Somoron is the head of Ephraim, and the son of Romelias, the head of Somoron, yes though you may not believe nor understand.

¹² saying, Perhaps they may order what is hard; [for whatever this people order is hard.] Be not ye terrified with the fear of them, nor dismayed; ¹³ hallow the Lord himself, and let him be thy fear:

²² Yes: though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, this remnant of them shall be saved.

¹⁵ And the Lord will dry up the sea of Egypt, and lay his hand on the river with a vehement wind; and smite the seven channels, so that they may be crossed dry shod. ¹⁶ And there shall be a passage for my people left in Egypt. It shall be for Israel as on the day when they came up out of the land of Egypt.

³² what then will the kings of nations say in reply? "That the Lord hath founded Sion, and by him the poor of his people shall be saved."

⁴ My heart is bewildered, transgression overwhelmeth me. My soul is on the brink of despair.

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;

² Who raised up righteousness from the East; called upon it to attend his steps? when he marcheth on, he will exhibit it before nations and confound kings and dash their swords to the ground, and their bows shall be driven away like stubble.

⁸ but thou Israel my servant; thou Jacob, whom I have chosen; thou seed of Abraham whom I loved! ⁹ have I not taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the speculations thereof called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant I have chosen thee and have not forsaken thee. ¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; be not led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right hand.

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; be not led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right hand.

¹⁴ Fear not, Jacob, diminutive Israel! I have helped thee, saith thy God, who redeemeth thee, Israel.

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.

⁸ Now, therefore, hear these things, thou voluptuary! thou who art seated at ease, who thinkest thyself secure; who sayest in thy heart; "I am and there is none else. I shall not sit a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children." ⁹ But now upon thee shall come these two things, suddenly, in one day. The loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly on thee, in the midst of thy sorcery, in the full strength of thy mighty enchantments.

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

² Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who brought you forth. For he was an individual when I called him; and I blessed him and loved him and multiplied him.

⁷ Hearken to me, ye who know judgment; ye people, in whose heart is my law. Fear not the reproach of men, nor be overcome by their contempt.

⁹ Awake, awake, Jerusalem! and clothe thyself with the strength of thine arm. Awake as at the beginning of day. ¹⁰ Art thou not as the generation of old, which dried up the sea; the swelling water of the deep? Which made the depths of the sea a road for the delivered and redeemed to pass?

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;

³ Incline your ears and follow in my paths; hearken to me and your soul shall live on good things; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant; the gracious promises to David which are faithful.

¹ You see how a righteous one was destroyed, and no one layeth it to heart. And righteous men are taken away, and no one observeth, that on account of iniquity the righteous one was taken away.

¹¹ though he remembered the days of old. O! where is he who caused the shepherd of his flock to come up out of the sea? Where is he, who put his holy spirit in them? ¹² That glorious arm of his which led Moses by the right hand? He forced back the water from before him, to make himself an everlasting name. ¹³ He led them through the deep, like a horse through a desert; and they were not fatigued: ¹⁴ and like cattle through a plain. A spirit from the Lord descended and conducted them. Thus thou .didst lead this people of thine, to make thyself a glorious name. ¹⁵ Return from heaven and take a view from the house of thy sanctuary and thy glory. Where is thy zeal and thy majesty? Where the abundance of thy loving kindness and tender affections, that thou hast withdrawn thyself from us? ¹⁶ For thou art our father. Because Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel hath not acknowledged us; do thou, Lord, our father, do thou deliver us. From the beginning thy name is upon us;

³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children, you did not receive instruction: a sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion; and you were not terrified. ³¹ Hear a word of the Lord! Thus saith the Lord, Was I a desert to Israel or a desolate land? Why did my people say, "We will not be lorded over, nor come to thee any more."

²³ [J] Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom: nor the mighty man boast of his strength; neither let the rich man boast of his riches: ²⁴ but let him who boasteth, boast of this only, that he understandeth and knoweth, that I am the Lord, who exercise mercy and judgment and justice on the earth: that in these things is my delight, saith the Lord.

¹¹ Thus shall you say to them. Let the gods, which have not made heaven and earth, perish from the earth and from under heaven.

¹⁶ Unlike to these is the portion of Jacob: for he who formed all things is his inheritance. His name is, The Lord.

¹ Then the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul is not towards them. Send away this people and let them go.

² smote him and committed him to the prison which was in the upper story of the gate to the house of the Lord.

⁷ [p] Hast thou, Lord deceived me? and have I been deceived? Thou hast taken hold and hast prevailed. I am become a subject of laughter: all the day long I endure reproach.

²³ who fetched him out thence and brought him to the king; and he slew him with the sword and threw him into the common grave yard. ²⁴ But the hand of Achikam son of Saphan was with Jeremias that they should not deliver him up into the hands of the people, nor kill him.

¹³ then pray to me and I will hearken to you: ¹⁴ then seek me diligently and you shall find me.

²⁶ "The Lord hath made thee priest in the room of Jodae the priest, to be a ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man who prophesieth, and over every man who divineth, that thou mayst commit him to prison, and confine him in a dungeon."

¹ At that time, said the Lord, I will be the God of the family of Israel and they shall be my people.

² When the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremias was confined in the court of the prison which is in the king's house, ³ to which king Sedekias had confined him, saying, "Why dost thou prophesy and say, thus said the Lord, Behold I deliver this city into the hands of the king of Babylon and he shall take it;

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

⁶ therefore thou shalt read from this roll in the hearing of the people in the house of the Lord on the fast day, even in the hearing: of all Juda who come from their cities thou shalt read to them.

²⁶ Then the king commanded Jeremeel the king's son and Saraias son of Esriel to apprehend Baruch and Jeremias. But they had hid themselves.

¹⁵ And the chiefs were enraged at Jeremias and smote him and committed him to the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that a prison. ¹⁶ And when Jeremias had gone into the lowest apartment, even into the Chereth, and had been there many days, Sedekias sent for him. ¹⁷ And the king asked him privately to tell him whether there was a message from the Lord. And Jeremias said, There is. Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon. ¹⁸ Then Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I offended thee and thy servants and this people, that thou hast committed me to prison? ¹⁹ Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, "The king of Babylon shall not come against this land?" ²⁰ Now therefore, my Lord the king, let me find favour in thy sight. Why art thou sending me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? Must I not die there? ²¹ Thereupon the king gave orders and they committed him to the guard house and gave him a loaf of bread a day from the bake house until all the bread in the city was spent. So Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.

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. ⁷ But when Abdemelech, the Ethiopian, who was in the king's family, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon, as the king was at the gate of Benjamin, ⁸ he went out to him and spoke to the king, and said, ⁹ Thou hast done wrong in ordering this man to be put to death out of the way of the famine, for there is no bread in the city. ¹⁰ Thereupon the king gave orders to Abdemelech, saying, Take hence with thee thirty men and draw him up out of the dungeon, that he may not die. ¹¹ So Abdemelech took the men and went to the king's house, into the cellar, and took thence old rags and old ropes and threw them down to Jeremias into the dungeon, ¹² and said, Put those under the ropes. And when Jeremias had done so, ¹³ they drew him up with the ropes out of the dungeon. And Jeremias abode in the court of the prison.

²⁸ So Jeremias remained in the court of the prison until Jerusalem was taken.

¹⁵ Now there had come to Jeremias in the court of the prison a word of the Lord, saying,

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. ⁵⁵ I called on thy name, O Lord, out of the deepest dungeon.

¹³ Because of the sins of her prophets; the iniquities of her priests; of them who were shedding innocent blood, in the midst of her, ¹⁴ [her watchmen shuddered in the streets, they were polluted with blood, as they could not but have touched their clothes.

¹⁷ I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear a word from my mouth and warn them from me. ¹⁸ When I say to the unrighteous, Thou shalt surely die, and thou hast not warned the unrighteous to turn from his ways that he may live; that unrighteous man shall die for his iniquity; but his blood I will require at thy hand. ¹⁹ But if thou hast warned the unrighteous and he will not turn from his iniquity and from his way; that unrighteous man shall die for his iniquity, and thou shalt deliver thy soul.

¹⁴ should there be in it three such men as these Noe, Daniel and Job: They for their righteousness shall be saved, saith the Lord.

²⁰ and Noe, Daniel and Job be therein; As I live, saith the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be left: they for their righteousness shall deliver only their own souls.

²⁴ When I take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and bring you into your own land;

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,

¹⁰ Now when Daniel knew that the decree was passed, he went home and the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem were opened for him, and three times a day, kneeling down on his knees, he prayed and gave thanks before his God as he had done heretofore.

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. 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.

³⁵ Then some of the wise will be weak that they may be tried and chosen, and that at a time the end may be revealed.

¹⁰ [Now the number of the children of Israel was like the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor counted.] "But it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, " You are not my people, " they shall be called children of the Living God,

⁹ Destruction will come on the wicked who set themselves against him; and he will gather captives like the sand.

⁸ Wast thou, Lord, angry with the rivers? Or was thy wrath against the rivers? Or thine indignation against a sea, that thou shouldst mount thy horses? Thy riding is indeed salvation. ⁹ Thou hast bent thy bow effectually against sceptres. The Lord saith, "The land of rivers shall be broken; ¹⁰ peoples shall see and be in pangs." Thou art scattering the rolling waters. The deep roared. It swelled high.

⁹ And when I have passed this third part through fire, and tried them as silver is tried, and proved them as gold is proved; this people will invoke My name and I will hear them and say, this is my people, and they will say, the Lord is my God.

² And who can abide the day of his coming? Or who can stand his appearance? Since he is coming like the fire of a refiner's furnace; and like the soap of the fullers. ³ He will sit refining and purifying and will purify the sons of Levi like the silver and gold, and melt them like the gold and silver. Then shall they offer to the Lord a sacrifice in righteousness

¹ The genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

⁵ and Salmon had Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz had Obed by Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse,

⁴ Now John had his raiment made of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his waist: and his food was locusts and wild honey:

⁷ And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them," Brood of vipers! who hath prompted you to flee from the impending wrath.

¹⁰ Happy they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake; for the kingdom of the heavens is theirs. ¹¹ Happy are ye when men will revile and persecute you, and accuse you falsely of every evil thing on my account. ¹² Rejoice and exult triumphantly; for great will be your reward in heaven: for thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹² Rejoice and exult triumphantly; for great will be your reward in heaven: for thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹ Take heed not to practise your righteousness before men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

¹ Take heed not to practise your righteousness before men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you have no reward from your father who is in heaven. ² Therefore when thou dost an act of charity, sound not a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may be extolled by men. Verily I say to you, they have their reward.

⁵ And when thou prayest, be not like the hypocrites. Because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets that men may observe them; verily I say to you, They have their reward.

¹⁶ And when you fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a dismal countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that men may observe that they are fasting. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you.

²⁴ Therefore whoever heareth these words of mine and putteth them in practice, him I will compare to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock.

²⁰ Jesus saith to him, the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have roosts; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.

²⁸ And when he went into the house, the blind men came to him. And Jesus saith to them, Do you believe that I can do this? They say to him, Yes, master.

²² And you will be hated by all men on the account of my name. But he who persevereth to the end shall be saved.

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.

⁴¹ He who receiveth a prophet on the account of his being a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receiveth a righteous man on the account of his being a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.

⁴¹ He who receiveth a prophet on the account of his being a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receiveth a righteous man on the account of his being a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward. ⁴² And whoever shall give any one of these little ones, were it only a cup of cold water to drink, on the account of his being a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

⁴¹ The men of Ninive will be raised up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and behold something greater than Jonas is here. ⁴² The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold something greater than Solomon is here,

¹⁷ For verily I say to you, "Many prophets and righteous men have earnestly desired to see what you see, and have not seen them; and to hear what you hear and have not heard them."

²¹ but not having it rooted in him, it is only temporary; and when tribulation and persecution cometh on account of the word, he is immediately stumbled.

¹⁹ and deliver him up to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and on the third day he will rise again.

³⁵ But the tenants seizing his servants, beat one and killed another, and stoned another.

³⁰ For in the future state, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. ³¹ But in respect to the revival of the dead. Have you not read what was spoken to you: by God, saying, ³² "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob," God is not the God of the dead; but of the living.

³⁴ For this, behold I am about to send you prophets, wise men and Scribes: and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; but you would not!

¹³ But he who persevereth to the end shall be saved.

¹⁵ Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place, [reader attend!]

²⁵ Behold I have forewarned you.

³⁸ For as in those days, before the deluge, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till Noe entered the ark;

³⁴ Then the king will say to them on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the formation of the world:

²⁶ Then he released to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him up to be crucified.

¹⁷ but not having it rooted in them, they are but temporary; so that when tribulation, or persecution cometh because of the word, they are instantly stumbled.

³⁸ For whoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the son of man will be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his father, with his holy angels.

³⁴ who will insult him, and scourge him, and spit upon him, and put him to death; and on the third day he will rise again.

²⁵ For when the dead rise again, they neither marry nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels in heaven. ²⁶ Now with respect to the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, how God spake in the bush to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob.

¹³ and you will be hated by all men on account of my name. But he who persevereth to the end shall be saved.

¹⁷ Now these signs shall accompany them who believe; by my name they will expel demons; they will speak with new tongues:

³⁶ Now behold Elizabeth thy cousin, even she hath conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month with her, who hath been called barren.

³⁷ son of Matthusala, son of Enoch, son of Jared, son of Maleleel, son of Kainan,

³⁵ But love your enemies; and do good; and lend without any mistrust, and your reward will be great. And you will be the children of the Most High Because he is kind, even to the ungrateful and malignant;

¹² And as he approached the gate of the city, behold the people were carrying out a dead man to be buried; the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And there was a great multitude of the city with her. ¹³ And when the Lord beheld her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not. ¹⁴ Then he advanced and touched the bier, [now the bearers had stopped] and he said, Young man, I say to thee, Arise. ¹⁵ Thereupon he who had been dead, sat up and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. ¹⁶ And a dread fell upon all; and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet is risen up among us, and God hath visited his people.

²³ Then turning to the disciples apart, he said, Happy the eyes, which see what you see! ²⁴ for I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen them; and to hear what you hear, and have not heard them.

³¹ The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extreme parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold something greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineve will stand up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonas, and behold something greater than Jonas is here.

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias who was slain between the altar and the temple: Verily I say to you, it will be required of this very generation.

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias who was slain between the altar and the temple: Verily I say to you, it will be required of this very generation. ⁵² Alas for you, teachers of the law! because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You entered not in yourselves; and them who were entering you hindered. ⁵³ Now while he was saying these things to them, the Scribes and the Pharisees took occasion to urge him vehemently, and provoke him to speak of many things, ⁵⁴ laying snares for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him;

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.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

³¹ But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things will be superadded to you. ³² Fear not, little flock. Because it hath pleased your Father to give you that kingdom,

²⁸ Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out.

³⁴ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! How often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen doth her brood under her wings; and ye would not.

¹⁴ and thou shall be happy. For as they are not of ability to requite thee, a requital will be made to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.

²⁵ And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

³¹ And Abraham said to him, If they will not hearken to Moses, and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one should rise from the dead.

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noe, so will it be in the days of the son of man.

³² For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and insulted, and spit upon.

³⁶ For they can die no more. For angel-like they are indeed children of God, being children of the resurrection. ³⁷ Now that the dead are raised up, even Moses hath plainly shewn; as at the bush he stileth the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob.

¹¹ and Herod with his soldiers had treated him with contempt and mockery, having arrayed him with a splendid robe, he sent him back to Pilate.

³⁶ And the soldiers also, coming and offering him vinegar, insulted him,

³ By him all things were made, and without him there was not made one single thing.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have everlasting life.

¹⁸ He who believeth in him will not be condemned; but he who believeth not, is condemned already; because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light, because their works were evil.

²⁹ and come forth; they who have done good, to a resurrection of life, and they who have done evil, to a resurrection of condemnation.

²⁴ therefore I said to you, You will die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.

⁵¹ Verily, verily, I say to you, If any one will keep this doctrine of mine, he shall never see death. ⁵² Thereupon the Jews said to him, Now we know that thou art possessed by a demon. Abraham is dead and the prophets; yet thou sayest, I any one keep this doctrine of mine, he shall never taste death.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham was transported with a desire to see this day of mine, and he saw it, and was made glad.

³¹ Hereupon the Jews again took up stones to stone him. ³² Jesus addressed them, I have shewn you many good works from my father, for which of those works would you stone me?" ³³ The Jews answered him saying, For a good work we are not about to stone thee, but for blasphemy, even because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

⁴⁰ Jesus saith to her, Did I not tell thee, if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the glory of God? ⁴¹ Then they removed the stone from where the deceased lay. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. ⁴² Now I know that thou hearest me always; but I have said this for the sake of the people standing around, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. ⁴³ And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, Come forth. ⁴⁴ Whereupon he who had been dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was wrapped in a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him and let him go. ⁴⁵ Upon this many of the Jews who had come to Mary, when they saw what Jesus had done, believed in him.

⁴¹ This Esaias said when he saw his glory and spake concerning him.

² In my Father's house there are many mansions. If there were not, would I have said to you, I am going to prepare a place for you?

⁶ Jesus saith to him, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one cometh to the father but by me.

²⁵ There are indeed many other things which Jesus did. With respect to them, if they were all committed to writing, one by one, even then I do not think that the world would cordially receive the books written. Amen.

²⁵ for concerning him David saith, I saw the Lord continually before me: because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved;

²⁹ Men, brethren, permit me to speak freely to you concerning the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried; and his sepulchre is among us to this day. ³⁰ Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that from the fruit of his loins he would, as far as regardeth the flesh, raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, ³¹ he spoke prophetically of the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left in the mansion of the dead, nor did his flesh see corruption.

²⁴ All the prophets also from Samuel, even as many of the following ones as have spoken, have likewise foretold these days.

³ and laid hands on them, and put them in prison till the next day. For it was now evening.

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.

¹⁸ and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

⁴⁰ So to him they agreed: and having called in the apostles and scourged them, they charged them not to speak about the name of Jesus and dismissed them. ⁴¹ Thereupon they went from the presence of the Sanhedrim, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

² Upon which he said, Men, brethren and fathers hearken. The God of the glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, ³ and said to him, Depart from this country of thine, and from thy kindred, and come to the land which I will shew thee. ⁴ Thereupon he went from the land of the Chaldees, and dwelt in Charran; and thence after his father died, God removed him to this land in which you now dwell, ⁵ but gave him no inheritance in it; not even a foot of land. He indeed promised that he would give it to him for a possession, even to his seed after him, though he then had no child. ⁶ And God spake thus; That his seed should sojourn in a strange land and be enslaved and afflicted: four hundred years:

¹⁶ and were conveyed to Sychem, and deposited in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmer the Sychemite.

²⁰ At this time Moses was born, who was exceeding beautiful, and was nursed up three months in his father's house. ²¹ Being then exposed, Pharao's daughter took him up and had him nursed for her own son. ²² So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom .of the Egyptians, and became mighty in council and in actions. ²³ And when he was forty years old it came into his mind to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them injured, he defended him and avenged the injury by killing the Egyptian.

²⁴ And seeing one of them injured, he defended him and avenged the injury by killing the Egyptian. ²⁵ Now he supposed that his brethren would understand that by his hand God was about to give them deliverance. But they understood not,

³² "I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob." Upon which Moses trembled and durst not view it.

⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Indeed they have slain them who prophesied concerning the coming of that Righteous one, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers:

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.

³ Saul was making havock of the congregation. Entering into houses and dragging out men and women, he committed them to prison.

⁴¹ Then Peter giving her his hand, helped her up, and having called the saints and the widows, presented her alive.

⁴³ To him all the prophets bear witness, that every one who believeth in him, shall receive remission of sins by his name.

² and slew with the sword James the brother of John. ³ And as he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also. 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. ⁶ And when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that very night, as Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, being bound with two chains; and the guards before the door were keeping watch, 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. ¹² Then, upon recollection, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where many were assembled and praying. ¹³ And when Peter knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant maid named Rhoda, went to inquire who was there. ¹⁴ But knowing Peter's voice, she, for joy, did not open the gate, but ran and told that Peter was at the gate. ¹⁵ Upon which they said to her, Thou art mad. But she confidently affirmed that it was certainly so: then they said, It is his angel. ¹⁶ As Peter continued knocking, they opened the gate, and upon seeing him, were extremely surprised. ¹⁷ But he having beckoned to them with his hand to be silent, related to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison, and said, Tell this to James and the brethren. Then departing, he went to another place. ¹⁸ Now as soon as it was day there was no small disturbance among the soldiers, What was become of Peter. 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.

²⁰ And after these things, which took up about four hundred and fifty years, he gave them judges till Samuel the prophet.

²² Then having removed him, he raised up for them David to be king, to whom he gave this testimony, "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who will execute all my orders." ²³ Of his seed God hath, according to promise, raised up for Israel a saviour, namely Jesus, ²⁴ before whose appearance John proclaimed a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel. ²⁵ And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, I am not he whom you suppose me to be; but behold he is coming after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to untie. ²⁶ Men, brethren, children of the race of Abraham, and those among you, who fear God, to you the word of this salvation is sent. ²⁷ For the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their chiefs, not knowing him, have indeed by condemning him fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath day. ²⁸ Though they found no cause of death, they demanded of Pilate that he should be executed. ²⁹ And when they had accomplished all that was written concerning him, he was taken down from the cross and laid in a tomb. ³⁰ But God raised him from the dead, ³¹ and for many days he appeared to them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are his witnesses to the people. ³² And we proclaim to you the glad tidings with respect to the promise made to the fathers, ³³ That God hath fulfilled it to us their children by raising up Jesus, even as it is written in the second psalm, "Thou art my son, this day I have begotten thee" ³⁴ and that he hath raised him from the dead never more to return to corruption, as he said, "I will give you the gracious promises to David which are faithful: ³⁵ and therefore, in another place, he saith, "Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption!" ³⁶ For David indeed, having in his generation answered the purpose of God, went to rest and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We are only frail mortals like yourselves, proclaiming to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and all the things which are therein;

¹⁹ But there came thither some Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who, having gained over the populace and stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, supposing him dead.

²² Upon this the populace rose up together against them; and the generals ordered them to be stript and beaten with rods. ²³ And having inflicted on them many stripe's, they committed them to prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely. ²⁴ He having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks. ²⁵ And about midnight Paul and Silas, having prayed, sung a hymn to God; and the prisoners heard them. ²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and all the doors were instantly opened, ²⁷ and the fetters of all dropped off. Upon which the jailor awaking, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drew his sword and was just going to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸ But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here. ²⁹ Thereupon, calling for lights, he ran in, and being in a tremour, prostrated himself before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and having brought them out, said, O sirs, What must I do to be saved? ³¹ And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy household. ³² Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all that were in his house. ³³ And he taking them that very hour of the night, washed their stripes; and he and all his family were immediately baptized. ³⁴ Then conducting them up to his house, he spread a table and rejoiced with all his family for having believed in God. ³⁵ And in the course of the day the generals sent the lictors, saying, Dismiss those men, ³⁶ When the jailor made this report to Paul, The generals have sent that you may be discharged; now, therefore, depart and go in peace; 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! ³⁸ No. Let them come themselves and take us out. When the lictors reported these words to the generals, they were terrified, hearing that they are Romans. So ³⁹ they came and comforted them, and having taken them out, intreated them to leave the city. ⁴⁰ Now when they came out of prison, they went to Lydia's where seeing the brethren, they comforted them and departed;

²⁴ He is the God who made the world and all the things which are therein. He is the Lord of heaven and earth. He dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

²¹ attesting both to Jews and Greeks the turning of the mind to God, and the belief in our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ save only that the Holy spirit testifieth in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me. 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.

³³ Then the commander drew near and arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and demanded who he was and what he had done.

²⁴ the commander ordered him to be brought into the castle and examined by scourging that he might know for what cause they raised such an outcry against him. ²⁵ But while they were straining him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and hath not had a trial.

²⁹ They therefore who were going to put him to the question, departed from him immediately. And the commander was afraid, knowing that he was a Roman, and that he had been tying him up.

⁶ Paul then perceiving that the one part were Sadducees; and the other Pharisees, cried aloud in the Sanhedrim, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee. For a hope even of a resurrection of the dead I am now to be judged.

¹⁵ having a confidence in God, which they themselves also entertain, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust;

²⁷ After two years however Felix was succeeded by Portius Festus, and being desirous to ingratiate himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

⁵ [namely]] Jesus Christ, our Lord, by whom we have received favour and an apostolical mission, that for his name there may be an obedience of faith among all the nations,

¹⁷ For by it there is revealed a justification of God's appointment because of belief, that we may believe. As it is written, "But the just shall live because of belief:

¹⁹ Because that which is to be known of God is manifest among them, for God hath manifested it to them; ²⁰ for his invisible attributes, both his eternal power and divine majesty, being thought upon, are from the creation of the world clearly discoverable by the things made, so that they are without excuse 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;

⁵ If then our unrighteousness established the righteousness of God, what shall we say, Is not God unjust who taketh vengeance? I speak as a man.

²² even a justification, of God's appointment, by faith in Jesus Christ, for all and upon all who believe; for there is no distinction;

²⁵ whom God heretofore exhibited as a mercy seat by faith in his blood, that, on account of the remission of past sins, during the forbearance of God, ²⁶ it might be an indication of this justification of his, pointing to a display of this justification of his at this time, in order to shew this, That he is just and the justifier of him who is a believer in Jesus.

¹ What then shall we say that our father Abraham obtained in regard to the flesh?

¹¹ and he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of that belief, which he had in uncircumcision, that he might be a father of all who believe when in a state of uncircumcision, in order that this righteousness may be reckoned to them also

¹³ For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not made to Abraham or his seed, during law, but during the righteousness of belief.

¹⁷ who; as it is written, " I have made thee a father of many nations" is the father of us all in the sight of him in whom he believed; namely God who reanimateth the dead, and calleth up things not yet in existence as if actually existing.

¹⁷ who; as it is written, " I have made thee a father of many nations" is the father of us all in the sight of him in whom he believed; namely God who reanimateth the dead, and calleth up things not yet in existence as if actually existing.

¹⁷ who; as it is written, " I have made thee a father of many nations" is the father of us all in the sight of him in whom he believed; namely God who reanimateth the dead, and calleth up things not yet in existence as if actually existing. ¹⁸ Against hope he believed with a hope that he should become father of many nations according to what was said, "So shall thy seed be"

¹⁸ Against hope he believed with a hope that he should become father of many nations according to what was said, "So shall thy seed be" ¹⁹ and far from being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now become dead, he being then in his hundredth year; nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.

¹⁹ and far from being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now become dead, he being then in his hundredth year; nor the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ He disputed not against the promise of God by unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully persuaded that he was able to perform what he had promised.

²¹ and being fully persuaded that he was able to perform what he had promised.

³ And not only so, but we boast also in our tribulations, as we know that tribulation operateth to produce patience;

¹⁴ but death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of him who was to come:

¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that favour may abound?

¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that though you were slaves of sin, yet from the heart you have conformed to the mould of doctrine in which you were cast,

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, by no means. Indeed I should not have known sin, had it not been for the law. For I should not have known covetousness, had not the law said, "Thou shall not covet"

⁸ they therefore who are in a carnal state cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in a carnal state, but in a spiritual state, if indeed the spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any one hath not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ if we suffer with him so that with him we may also be glorified. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be set against that glory which is about to be revealed for us.

²³ Nay, even they who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves are groaning within ourselves, waiting for an adoption the redemption of this body of ours. ²⁴ For to this hope we have escaped. Now hope which is attained, is not hope; for why should one hope for that which he enjoyeth. 25 But if we hope for what we do not enjoy, we wait for it with patience,

²⁴ For to this hope we have escaped. Now hope which is attained, is not hope; for why should one hope for that which he enjoyeth. 25 But if we hope for what we do not enjoy, we wait for it with patience,

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ [As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long, And accounted as sheep for slaughter" ³⁷ We indeed in all these things are more than conquerors by means of him who hath loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁷ nor are they all children, because they are of the race of Abraham; but in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee.

²⁷ Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, this remnant shall be saved."

³⁰ What then are we to infer? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but it was a righteousness because of belief;

⁶ but the righteousness because of believing speaketh in this manner: Say not in thy heart, Who will ascend up to heaven [that is to bring Christ down];

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a proclaimer?

¹⁶ But all have not duly hearkened to the good news, for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed this report of ours."

⁹ For it seems as if God had exhibited us, the apostles, last on the stage as devoted to death since we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. ¹⁰ We are fools on the account of Christ; but you are prudent in Christ: We are weak; but you are strong: you are honourable; but we are despised: ¹¹ Even at this very moment we are hungry and thirsty and naked and buffeted, and are wandering about and weary, ¹² working with our own hands. Being reviled we give good words; being persecuted we suffer patiently; ¹³ being defamed we exhort. We are become as it were the expiatory sacrifices of the world; the refuse of all things until now.

⁷ It beareth all things. It believeth all things. It hopeth all things. It endureth all things patiently.

¹³ Now then these three, faith, hope and love, will remain; but love is the greatest of the three.

⁵⁴ Now when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility; and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass the word which is written, "Death is completely swallowed up."

¹⁸ while we are aiming not at things seen, but at things unseen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal.

¹⁸ while we are aiming not at things seen, but at things unseen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal.

¹ For we know that when the earthly house of this dwelling of ours is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.

⁷ [for we walk by faith and not by sight;]

¹⁷ So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, behold! all those things are made new.

¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet still rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.

¹² For if there be a willingness, a person is accepted according to what he hath; not according to what he hath not.

⁴ lest if some Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to say you, may be put to the blush for this confident boasting.

⁴ [the weapons of our warfare being indeed not carnal but mighty through God for the demolition of fortifications] ⁵ demolishing surmises and every mount raised against the knowledge of God, and bringing every sentiment captive to the obedience of the Christ;

⁵ demolishing surmises and every mount raised against the knowledge of God, and bringing every sentiment captive to the obedience of the Christ;

¹⁷ What I am going to say, I do not say according to the Lord, but as with folly on the subject of this boasting.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? [I speak with an excess of folly] I am more so; more abundant in labours; far surpassing in stripes; more frequent in imprisonments, often in deaths.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? [I speak with an excess of folly] I am more so; more abundant in labours; far surpassing in stripes; more frequent in imprisonments, often in deaths. ²⁴ Of the Jews I five times received forty stripes save one.

²⁴ Of the Jews I five times received forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Thrice I have been shipwrecked. In the deep I spent a whole night and day.

²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Thrice I have been shipwrecked. In the deep I spent a whole night and day. ²⁶ On journeys I have been frequently in dangers from rivers; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my country men; in dangers from foreign nations; in dangers in cities; in dangers in a wilderness; in dangers at sea; in dangers among false brethren: ²⁷ In toil and fatigue, in watchings many a time, with hunger and thirst; in fastings many a time, with cold and nakedness.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will with the greatest pleasure, rather boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may shelter me. ¹⁰ I feel therefore a complacency in weaknesses, in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁰ I feel therefore a complacency in weaknesses, in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁶ and the promises were made to Abraham and the seed of him [it is not said "and to the seeds" as if it was a covenant for many, but as if for one, and to the seed of thee; namely Christ]

⁵ As for us then, we by the spirit entertain a hope of justification for faith. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any thing, but a belief made operative by love.

¹⁸ that He would enlighten the eyes of your understanding, that you may see what the hope of this invitation of his is; and what the riches of the glory of this inheritance of his, in the saints;

¹⁹ you therefore are no longer strangers, and pilgrims, but fellow citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

¹ For this cause, with regard to me Paul the prisoner of the Christ, Jesus, for you the nations;

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this favour was granted to proclaim among the nations the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do infinitely above all that we can ask or conceive, according to that power which is operative in us

¹ I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the call with which you have been called,

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

⁷ yet what were gain to me these I have counted refuse on account of the Christ

⁹ and be found in him, not having for my righteousness, that which is of the law, but that which is by a belief in Christ"that which is of God"a righteousness for this belief.

¹¹ that I may somehow arrive at the resurrection of the dead

²⁰ But we are citizens of heaven, from which we earnestly expect a saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

²⁴ Now I rejoice in these sufferings of mine for you, and am in my turn making up in my flesh the remainders of the sufferings of the Christ, for his body, namely, the congregation

⁴ but as we had been approved by God to be entrusted with the glad tidings, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who trieth our hearts.

³ We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is fit; because your faith increaseth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all towards one another aboundeth: ⁴ So that we ourselves boast of you in the congregations of God, on account of your perseverance and belief, in all your persecutions. Indeed by these afflictions which you endure ⁵ there is a clear evidence of the righteous judgment of God that you are accounted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you, actually suffer; ⁶ since it is just with God to retribute affliction to them who afflict you;

¹⁷ Now to the king of the ages; the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, be honour and glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁶ who alone hath immortality, who inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, or can see, to whom be honour and everlasting dominion. Amen.

⁸ Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me who am a prisoner on his account; but share with me in affliction for the glad tidings, according to the power of God,

¹⁶ The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of this chain of mine;

³ Do thou therefore endure hardships as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one going to war entangleth himself with worldly affairs, that he may please him who hath inlisted him. ⁵ And if a man combateth in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he combat according' to the rules prescribed. ⁶ The husbandman must labour before he partaketh of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say, and may the

⁸ Lord grant thee understanding in all things. Remember Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, raised from the dead according to these glad tidings of mine ⁹ for which I suffer even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

⁹ for which I suffer even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound. ¹⁰ For this Cause I bear all things patiently for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain that salvation which is by Christ Jesus, with everlasting glory.

¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. ¹² Indeed all who wish to live holy in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that the proclamation might be made completely by me, and that all the nations might hear it. And I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion. ¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹ Paul, a servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's chosen people, and the acknowledgment of a truth which promoteth piety

¹⁶ they make a profession of knowing God, but with their works they deny him; being abominable, and disobedient, and lost to every good work.

² hath in these last days spoken to us by a son whom he hath constituted heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

² For if the word spoken by messengers was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received as its reward a correspondent requital, ³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which was first published by the Lord, and confirmed for us by them who heard him,

¹¹ For both he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

⁴ For every house hath some builder, but he who builded all things is God.

¹² Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

¹⁴ [for we are made associates of the Christ if we retain the beginning of this confidence firm to the end]

¹⁸ And to whom did he solemnly say that they should not enter into his rest, but to them who were disobedient.

¹⁸ And to whom did he solemnly say that they should not enter into his rest, but to them who were disobedient. ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

² For we have had the glad tidings proclaimed to us, as they also had; but the word which they heard did not profit them; as it was not mixed up with belief by the hearers.

⁶ Therefore since it is left for some to enter into it, and they who had the glad tidings first proclaimed to them did not enter in because of unbelief,

⁹ There is then a Sabbath rest left for the people of God.

⁷ He, [who in the days of his flesh, having, with a strong cry and tears, offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being hearkened to, did, from a reverential awe notwithstanding his being a son, learn obedience from what he suffered;

⁹ and being consecrated became the author of everlasting salvation to all who obey him,]

¹² that you may not become languid, but imitators of them who through faith and long suffering inherit the promises.

¹² that you may not become languid, but imitators of them who through faith and long suffering inherit the promises. ¹³ For when God made a promise to Abraham, as he had none greater to swear by, he swore by himself, ¹⁴ saying, "Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." ¹⁵ And so he, having waited with patience, obtained the promise.

¹⁵ And so he, having waited with patience, obtained the promise.

¹⁷ God, willing on this occasion to shew more fully to the heirs of this promise the immutability of his determination, interposed an oath, ¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to deceive, there might be strong consolation for us who have fled to take hold of this proffered hope, ¹⁹ which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast; and which entereth within the veil,

⁶ but he who was not of their pedigree received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

¹⁹ [for the law made nothing perfect] and an introduction of a better hope by which we draw near to God.

²² by so much Jesus is made the surety of a better covenant.

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.

⁶ Now then He hath more noble services allotted to him, in as much as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

⁸ the Holy Spirit plainly shewing this, that the way into the holies was not yet manifested while that tabernacle hath a standing. ⁹ This figurative representation was for the time being, according to which gifts and sacrifices were offered, which cannot make him who performeth service, perfect with regard to the conscience, ¹⁰ they being things imposed barely for meats, and drinks, and divers baptisms, and rules of conduct respecting flesh, until the time of reformation: ¹¹ But Christ being come, a chief priest of the future good things, hath entered into the holies by the greater and more perfect tabernacle; not by one made with hands, that is, not of this creation; ¹² nor with the blood of goats and young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all, having procured everlasting redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean sanctify, to the cleansing of the flesh; 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. ¹⁵ Indeed on the account of this he is the mediator of a New Covenant, that [there having been death for a pardon of the transgressions under the first covenant they who have been called may receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.

¹⁹ for when every precept according to law was rehearsed by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and the Book, and he sprinkled it on all the people

²² And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood. Indeed without a shedding of blood there was no remission. ²³ There was therefore a necessity that the things which were symbols of those in heaven, should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves, with sacrifices better than these. ²⁴ For the Christ did not enter into holies made with hands, the symbols of the true; but into heaven itself; now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf:

¹¹ Though every priest hath indeed stood performing daily service, and frequently offering the same sacrifices, these can by no means take away sins; ¹² but he having offered for sins one sacrifice, to last for ever, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ thenceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. ¹⁴ For by one offering he hath made perfect for ever them who are sanctified.

²² let us come with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure water. ²³ Let us hold fast the profession of this hope without wavering; for he who hath promised is faithful;

³² But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, ³³ being publicly exposed to reproaches and afflictions, and at the same time sympathizing with them who were thus treated: ³⁴ For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and waited with joy the seizure of your goods, knowing that you had in yourselves a better,"even an ever-during substance in heaven. ³⁵ Therefore cast not away that confidence of yours which hath a great recompense of reward. ³⁶ For you must persevere, that when you have performed the will of God, you may receive the promised reward.

³⁹ But we are not of them who draw back for perdition; but of them who believe for the attainment of life.

¹ Now, faith is a confident expectation of things hoped for; a convincement of the mind with respect to the reality of things not seen. ² By this therefore the ancients obtained reputation. ³ By faith we understand that the ages were arranged by a word of God, that the things seen should not at all be out of things which appear. ⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; by means of which he received a testimonial of being righteous, God himself giving a testimony in favour of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, still speaketh.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; by means of which he received a testimonial of being righteous, God himself giving a testimony in favour of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, still speaketh.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; by means of which he received a testimonial of being righteous, God himself giving a testimony in favour of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, still speaketh. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for before his translation he received this testimonial that he was well pleasing to God. ⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing; for he who cometh to God must believe that he existeth, and that he is the rewarder of them who diligently seek him.

⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing; for he who cometh to God must believe that he existeth, and that he is the rewarder of them who diligently seek him. ⁷ By faith Noah, when warned of unforeseen events, with a religious concern prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of that righteousness which is by faith.

⁷ By faith Noah, when warned of unforeseen events, with a religious concern prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of that righteousness which is by faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham, when called, shewed obedience by going to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and set out on his journey not knowing whither he was going.

¹⁰ For he expected that city which hath foundations, whose architect and founder is God. ¹¹ By faith Sarah also received strength for conception, and was delivered of a son when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore there sprang even from one, and him dead as to these things, a posterity like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sand on the sea shore which is innumerable. ¹³ These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they viewed them at a distance, and were persuaded of, and embraced them, and acknowledged that they were strangers and sojourners in the land. ¹⁴ For they who speak thus shew plainly that they are seeking their father's country:

¹⁶ but now they desire a better; that is a heavenly country; therefore God is not ashamed of them; to be invoked as their God: for he prepared a city for them. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was put to the trial, offered up Isaak. Though he had received the promises he offered up his only begotten son,

²⁶ accounting the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had an eye to the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt in defiance of the king's wrath; for he persevered as seeing Him who is invisible.

³³ who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

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,

³⁹ Though these all received a testimonial by means of their belief, they did not obtain the promise,

¹ As we therefore are encompassed with such a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily entangleth us, and let us run without intermission the race set before us,

¹ As we therefore are encompassed with such a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily entangleth us, and let us run without intermission the race set before us, ² looking forward to Jesus, the leader and perfecter of this faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider him who bore such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you may not grow weary, nor faint in your minds.

²² but you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels ²³ to the general assembly and congregation of first born, enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel.

²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel.

²⁸ As we have therefore received a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and holy awe:

⁶ So that we may say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man can to do me."

¹³ Let us then go out to him, without the camp, bearing his reproach. ¹⁴ For we have no abiding city here, but are seeking one to come.

² Count it, my brethren, all joy when you fall into divers trials, ³ knowing that the trial of your faith operateth to produce patience. ⁴ Let patience then have a full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

²⁰ for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

¹⁴ What is the advantage, my brethren, though one should say he hath belief, when he hath not works? Can that belief save him? ¹⁵ Suppose a brother or a sister be naked, or in want of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you should say to them, go in peace: be warmed, and be fed to the full; and you do not give them the things necessary for the body, is this any advantage?

²¹ Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he offered up his son Isaak on the altar? ²² Thou seest that his belief co-operated with his works, and by his works his belief was perfected. ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, "Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him for righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by belief only. ²⁵ In like manner also, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, having secreted the messengers, and sent them out another way?

⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth. You have indulged voluptuousness. You have pampered your hearts, as on a day of public feasting.

¹⁰ For an example of enduring adversity, and of long suffering, take, my brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

¹⁰ For an example of enduring adversity, and of long suffering, take, my brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold we call those sufferers happy. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord's termination" that the Lord is full of compassion and tender mercy.

¹¹ Behold we call those sufferers happy. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord's termination" that the Lord is full of compassion and tender mercy.

² whom God the Father, according to his predetermination hath chosen, that by a sanctification of spirit they may obey, and be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ; favour be to you, and may peace be multiplied.

⁶ in whom you exult with joy though you are now for a little while, if it be necessary, distressed with divers trials; ⁷ in order that your faith, which hath stood the test and is much more precious than gold which is of a perishable nature though tried by fire, may be found praise worthy, and honourable, and glorious, at the manifestation of Jesus Christ,

⁷ in order that your faith, which hath stood the test and is much more precious than gold which is of a perishable nature though tried by fire, may be found praise worthy, and honourable, and glorious, at the manifestation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom without knowing him personally you love; in whom though you do not now see him, yet you believe, and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorified joy,

⁸ whom without knowing him personally you love; in whom though you do not now see him, yet you believe, and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorified joy,

¹⁰ about which salvation the prophets, who prophesied concerning this favour for you, made diligent inquiry ¹¹ and search, trying to find to what time, and what manner of time, the spirit of Christ within them pointed, when it testified before hand the sufferings which were for Christ, and the glories which should succeed them:

¹¹ and search, trying to find to what time, and what manner of time, the spirit of Christ within them pointed, when it testified before hand the sufferings which were for Christ, and the glories which should succeed them: ¹² to whom it was revealed that it was not for themselves, but for us, that they dispensed those things which have now been announced to you by them who proclaimed to you the glad tidings with a holy spirit sent from heaven; into which things angels have an earnest desire to look narrowly.

¹² to whom it was revealed that it was not for themselves, but for us, that they dispensed those things which have now been announced to you by them who proclaimed to you the glad tidings with a holy spirit sent from heaven; into which things angels have an earnest desire to look narrowly.

¹⁷ And since you invoke, as father, him who without respect of persons judgeth every one according to his work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear;

²² Having, in obedience to the truth, purified your souls by the spirit for an unfeigned brotherly affection, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

⁸ is indeed a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. They disbelieving the word stumble at the thing for which they were laid:

¹⁰ you who formerly were not a people but are now the people of God who were uncompassionated, but are now compassionated ¹¹ beloved; I beseech you as strangers and sojourners to abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul:

¹ In like manner ye wives, be subject to your own husbands, that if any of them disbelieve the word they may by the deportment of their wives, without a word, be won over,

⁵ For thus, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God adorned themselves, submitting to their husbands, ⁶ [as Sarah, whose daughters you are, obeyed Abraham, calling him lord] doing what was right, and alarmed by no terror.

²⁰ made proclamation at the time they were disobedient when the long suffering of God was waiting once for all in the day of Noe, while the ark was a building, in which a few, that be eight souls, made their escape during the flood;

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:

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.

¹⁵ For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or a malefactor, or as a usurper of authority; ¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this respect. ¹⁷ For the time is come when judgment is to begin at the house of God. And if it begin first with us, what must be the end of them who disregard the glad tidings of God?

⁸ be sober, be watchful: because your adversary the devil is walking about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them who have obtained a like precious belief with us, in the saving goodness of our God and saviour Jesus Christ,

⁵ therefore, having on your part used all diligence for the very same purpose, add to your faith fortitude; and to fortitude, knowledge;

¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, use the more diligence to make your call and election sure; for if you practise these you will never fall;

²¹ for prophecy was not uttered in former days at the will of man; but the holy men of God spoke by an impulse of the holy spirit.

⁵ and if he spared not the old world, but preserved eight persons, including Noah, the proclaimer of righteousness, when he brought a deluge on the world of ungodly men

² that you may remember the predictions of the holy prophets, and the injunction of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour;

⁵ For this they wilfully forget, that by the word of God there were heavens of old, and an earth consisting of water and in water, ⁶ by which the world that then existed, being deluged, was destroyed;

¹⁴ As you therefore, beloved, expect these things, use all diligence to be found at peace with him, without spot and without blemish;

¹¹ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, ¹² and not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹⁹ When we know by this that we are of the truth, let us in his presence persuade our hearts,

²² and whatever we ask we obtain from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

¹¹ Alas for them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and rambled in the error of Balaam's reward and perished in the rebellion of Kore.

¹⁴ Now to such as these Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold the Lord is coming with his holy myriads

⁹ "I know thy works, and thine affliction, and thy poverty, [though thou art rich] and the slander of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of satan. 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.

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will keep thee from the hour of trial which is coming soon on the whole world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

¹⁸ I advise thee to purchase of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayst be rich, and white raiment that thou mayst be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayst see.

¹¹ Thou, O Lord, art worthy to receive the glory and the honour and the power, because thou hast created all things, and at thy will they exist and were created.

¹¹ And to every of them were given white robes and they were told that they should rest yet a little while till their fellow servants and their brethren who were about to be slain as well as they were completed.

³ And I will give to my two witnesses and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.

⁹ and some of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three days and a half and will not permit their dead bodies to be put in graves. ¹⁰ And they who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and be glad, and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented them who dwelt on the earth. ¹¹ And after the three days and a half, a breath of life from God came upon them and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon them who beheld them; ¹² and they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, Come up hither; and they ascended up to heaven in the cloud and their enemies beheld them;

⁷ In proportion to her ostentation and luxury inflict on her torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I am enthroned a queen and am not a widow, and shall not see sorrow;

⁸ and will go forth to seduce the nations which are in the four corners of the earth Gog and Magog to assemble them for battle; the number of whom will be as the sand of the sea.

² And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

⁸ but the cowards and the unbelieving and abominable and murderers and prostitutes, and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.

¹⁰ And he carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain and shewed me the great city: the holy Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God. And its lustre was like a most precious stone, like a jasper shining as chrystal; ¹² and it had a great and high wall with twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels and [on the gates] were graven the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel ¹³ On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; on the west three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations on which were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he who was talking with me had a golden reed to measure the city and its gates and its wall. ¹⁶ Now the city is a square and its length is as much as its breadth. And he measured the city with the rod twelve thousand furlongs; the length and the breadth and the height are equal. 17 And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty four cubits, the measure of a man which is that of an angel.

¹⁸ And its wall was built of jasper and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation was jasper; and the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardus; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the "twelve gates were twelve pearls. Every several gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. ²² And in it I saw no temple; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is its temple. ²³ And the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to enlighten it; for the glory of God enlightened it; and the lamb is its lamp: ²⁴ and the nations of the saved will walk in its light; and the kings of the earth will bring their glory and honour into it; ²⁵ and its gates shall not be shut by day; for there shall be no night there. ²⁶ And the glory and the honour of the nations shall be brought to it. ²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing which defileth or maketh an abomination or [uttereth] a lie; none but they who are enrolled in the Lamb's book of life.