1 Chronicles 16 Cross References - ACV

¹ And they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. ² And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of LORD. ³ And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins. ⁴ And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise LORD, the God of Israel: ⁵ Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps, and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud, ⁶ and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God. ⁷ Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to LORD by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. ⁸ O give thanks to LORD. Call upon his name. Make known his doings among the peoples. ⁹ Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Talk ye of all his marvelous works. ¹⁰ Glory ye in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek LORD rejoice. ¹¹ Seek ye LORD and his strength. Seek his face evermore. ¹² Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, ¹³ O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. ¹⁴ He is LORD our God. His judgments are in all the earth. ¹⁵ Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, ¹⁶ the covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac, ¹⁷ and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹⁸ saying, To thee I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance, ¹⁹ when ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it, ²⁰ and they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. ²¹ He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, ²² saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm. ²³ Sing to LORD, all the earth. Show forth his salvation from day to day. ²⁴ Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. ²⁵ For great is LORD, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. ²⁶ For all the gods of the peoples are idols. But LORD made the heavens. ²⁷ Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place. ²⁸ Ascribe to LORD, ye kindred of the peoples. Ascribe to LORD glory and strength. ²⁹ Ascribe to LORD the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship LORD in holy array. ³⁰ Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it cannot be moved. ³¹ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. And let them say among the nations, LORD reigns. ³² Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it. Let the field exult, and all that is therein. ³³ Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. ³⁴ O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness is forever. ³⁵ And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation. And gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. ³⁶ Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And all the people said, Truly, and praised LORD. ³⁷ So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of LORD, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required, ³⁸ and Obed-edom with their sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun and Hosah were to be porters, ³⁹ and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon, ⁴⁰ to offer burnt offerings to LORD upon the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of LORD, which he commanded to Israel. ⁴¹ And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to LORD because his loving kindness is forever. ⁴² And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. ⁴³ And all the people departed every man to his house. And David returned to bless his house.

¹⁷ And they brought in the ark of LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before LORD. ¹⁸ And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of LORD of hosts. ¹⁹ And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed every one to his house.

⁵ And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. ⁶ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

¹ And David made for him houses in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it.

¹² And said to them, Ye are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brothers, that ye may bring up the ark of LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

⁴ But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it. For he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

⁶ And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. ⁷ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the sons of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy. ¹⁷ And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs. And for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁸ And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

⁸ Arise, O LORD, into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength.

¹⁹ And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

⁷ Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shall live. And if thou do not restore her, know thou that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

⁷ And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

³ If his oblation be a burnt offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before LORD.

²³ Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This way ye shall bless the sons of Israel: Ye shall say to them, ²⁴ LORD bless thee, and keep thee. ²⁵ LORD make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious to thee. ²⁶ LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. ²⁷ So shall they put my name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.

⁶ So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away, and they went to their tents.

¹⁸ And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of LORD of hosts.

⁵⁵ And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, ⁵⁶ Blessed be LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

²⁹ And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.

¹⁸ For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon everyone ¹⁹ who sets his heart to seek God, LORD, the God of his fathers, though he be not according to the purification of the sanctuary. ²⁰ And LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

²⁷ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people. And their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

⁵⁰ And he led them outside as far as to Bethany, and having lifted up his hands, he blessed them. ⁵¹ And it came to pass while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was brought up into heaven.

⁷ And without all contradiction the inferior is blessed by the superior.

²⁴ For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep. And the rulers gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep. And a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

⁷ And Josiah gave to the sons of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and also three thousand bullocks; these were of the king's substance. ⁸ And his rulers gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord; neither be ye grieved, for the joy of LORD is your strength.

¹⁷ And it shall be the ruler's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

⁹ stranger-loving toward each other without complaints.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.

²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

²⁰ And he erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

¹ And LORD said to Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. ² And thy brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined to thee, and minister to thee, but thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tent of the testimony. ³ And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tent. Only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor ye. ⁴ And they shall be joined to thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, and a stranger shall not come near to you. ⁵ And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, that there be no more wrath upon the sons of Israel. ⁶ And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

¹⁵ And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

¹⁶ And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

⁸ O give thanks to LORD. Call upon his name. Make known his doings among the peoples.

³⁷ So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of LORD, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required, ³⁸ and Obed-edom with their sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun and Hosah were to be porters, ³⁹ and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon, ⁴⁰ to offer burnt offerings to LORD upon the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of LORD, which he commanded to Israel. ⁴¹ And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to LORD because his loving kindness is forever. ⁴² And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

² And he gathered together all the rulers of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. ³ And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward. And their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of LORD. And six thousand were officers and judges, ⁵ and four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised LORD with the instruments which I made, David said, to praise therewith. ⁶ And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

²⁷ For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward. ²⁸ For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God, also ²⁹ for the showbread, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size. ³⁰ And to stand every morning to thank and praise LORD, and likewise at evening. ³¹ And to offer all burnt offerings to LORD, on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before LORD. ³² And that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of LORD.

³ And David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.

¹ Fret not thyself because of evildoers, nor be thou envious against those who work unrighteousness.

¹ Hasten, O God, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O LORD.

¹⁸ Blessed be LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

² Bless LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

⁴⁸ Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Truly. Praise ye LORD.

⁶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest, ⁷ and give him no rest, till he establishes, and till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

¹⁶ And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy. ¹⁷ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel. And of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah. And of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah. ¹⁸ And with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters. ¹⁹ So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed with cymbals of brass to sound aloud. ²⁰ And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth. ²¹ And Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps set to the Sheminith, to lead. ²² And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song. He instructed about the song because he was skilful. ²³ And Berechiah and Elkanah were porters for the ark. ²⁴ And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God. And Obed-edom and Jehiah were porters for the ark.

¹ Moreover David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals. And the number of those who did the work according to their service was: ² of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king. ³ Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising LORD. ⁴ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. ⁵ All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.

²⁵ And he set the Levites in the house of LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet. For the commandment was of LORD by his prophets.

⁸ And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets, and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

¹² Also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets), ¹³ it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking LORD. And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised LORD, saying, For he is good. For his loving kindness is forever, that the house was then filled with a cloud, even the house of LORD,

¹² And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O sons of Israel, fight ye not against LORD, the God of your fathers. For ye shall not prosper.

²⁶ And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷ And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of LORD began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel. ²⁸ And all the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this until the burnt offering was finished.

¹ And David spoke to LORD the words of this song in the day that LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

¹ Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, and the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel: ² The Spirit of LORD spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

³⁰ Moreover Hezekiah the king and the rulers commanded the Levites to sing praises to LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

²⁴ And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

¹ Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.

¹ I love thee, O LORD, my strength.

⁴³ hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to thee for, that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as does thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

¹⁹ Now therefore, O LORD our God, save thou us, I beseech thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou LORD are God alone.

⁸ O give thanks to LORD. Call upon his name. Make known his doings among the peoples. ⁹ Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Talk ye of all his marvelous works. ¹⁰ Glory ye in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek LORD rejoice. ¹¹ Seek ye LORD and his strength. Seek his face evermore. ¹² Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, ¹³ O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. ¹⁴ He is LORD our God. His judgments are in all the earth. ¹⁵ Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, ¹⁶ the covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac, ¹⁷ and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹⁸ saying, To thee I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance, ¹⁹ when ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it, ²⁰ and they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. ²¹ He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, ²² saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.

³⁴ O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness is forever.

² that thy way may be known upon earth, thy salvation among all nations. ³ Let the peoples praise thee, O God. Let all the peoples praise thee. ⁴ O let the nations be glad and sing for joy. For thou will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. ⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons, ⁶ that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

¹ O give thanks to LORD, call upon his name. Make known among the peoples his doings. ² Sing to him, sing praises to him. Talk ye of all his marvelous works. ³ Glory ye in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek LORD rejoice. ⁴ Seek ye LORD and his strength. Seek his face evermore. ⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, ⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen. ⁷ He is LORD our God. His judgments are in all the earth. ⁸ He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, ⁹ which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac, ¹⁰ and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹¹ saying, To thee I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance, ¹² when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it. ¹³ And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, ¹⁵ saying, Touch not my anointed men, and do my prophets no harm.

⁵ I will meditate on the glorious majesty of thine honor, and of thy wondrous works. ⁶ And men shall speak of the might of thy fearful acts, and I will declare thy greatness.

⁴ And in that day ye shall say, Give thanks to LORD. Call upon his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Make mention that his name is exalted.

¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.

² to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our the Lord Jesus Christ-both ours and theirs.

¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy loving kindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

¹⁷ O God, thou have taught me from my youth, and I have declared thy wondrous works until now.

¹ O come, let us sing to LORD. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. ² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

¹ O sing to LORD a new song. Sing to LORD, all the earth. ² Sing to LORD, bless his name. Show forth his salvation from day to day. ³ Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

¹ O sing to LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand, and his holy arm, has wrought salvation for him. ² LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. ³ He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴ Make a joyful noise to LORD, all the earth. Break forth and sing for joy, yea, sing praises.

⁴ One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

¹² to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.

¹⁶ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name.

³⁰ And having sung a hymn, they went out to the mount of Olives.

¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and striking strings in your heart to the Lord,

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

¹³ Is any man among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found by thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

² My soul shall make its boast in LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

¹⁷ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. I, LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

²⁵ In LORD all the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.

⁶ Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

²³ Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, ²⁴ but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.

¹³ And ye shall seek me, and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

⁷ Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

³⁰ But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, ³¹ so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

⁴¹ Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength. Let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy sanctified rejoice in goodness.

⁶ Many there are who say, Who will show us good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

⁶ This is the generation of those who seek after him, who seek thy face, even Jacob. Selah.

⁸ My heart said to thee, I have sought thy face. O LORD, I will seek thy face. ⁹ Hide not thy face from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹ God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us (Selah),

³⁵ O God, awesome out of thy holy places, the God of Israel, he gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.

⁶¹ and delivered their strength into captivity, and their glory into the adversary's hand.

⁶ Seek LORD, and ye shall live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

² before the decree bring forth, before the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of LORD comes upon you, before the day of LORD's anger comes upon you. ³ Seek ye LORD, all ye meek of the earth who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be ye will be hid in the day of LORD's anger.

⁸ O give thanks to LORD. Call upon his name. Make known his doings among the peoples. ⁹ Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Talk ye of all his marvelous works.

⁹ The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

¹¹ I will make mention of the deeds of LORD, for I will remember thy wonders of old.

⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan,

⁴ He has made his wonderful works to be remembered. LORD is gracious and merciful.

¹³ With my lips I have declared all the ordinances of thy mouth.

²⁰ My soul breaks for the longing that it has to thine ordinances at all times.

⁷⁵ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou have afflicted me.

¹³⁷ Thou are righteous, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

³³ O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!

⁷ And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

² Because true and righteous are his judgments, because he has judged the great whore who ruined the earth by her fornication, and he has avenged the blood of his bondmen from her hand.

¹³ And, behold, LORD stood above it, and said, I am LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which thou lie, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

¹⁰ And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob. Thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. ¹¹ And God said to him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins. ¹² And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to thee, and I will give the land to thy seed after thee.

⁵ Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine, ⁶ and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shall speak to the sons of Israel.

⁶ For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

⁴ For LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession.

⁹ But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

² LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

¹² Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

¹⁰ As is thy name, O God, so is thy praise to the ends of the earth. Thy right hand is full of righteousness. ¹¹ Let mount Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments.

¹ O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.

⁷ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, O that ye would hear his voice!

⁸ Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O LORD. ⁹ For thou, LORD, are most high above all the earth. Thou are exalted far above all gods.

³ Know ye that LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

²⁸ Thou are my God, and I will give thanks to thee. Thou are my God, I will exalt thee.

⁹ With my soul I have desired thee in the night. Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee earnestly. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

⁹ Know therefore that LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

¹⁰ All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

⁸ He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁴ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

⁷ And LORD appeared to Abram, and said, I will give this land to thy seed. And there he built an altar to LORD, who appeared to him.

¹⁸ In that day LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

² And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

¹⁶ and said, By myself I have sworn, says LORD, because thou have done this thing, and have not withheld thy son, thine only son, ¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies, ¹⁸ and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

³ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. For to thee, and to thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham thy father.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

¹⁵ And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shall thou say to the sons of Israel, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

⁸ and found his heart faithful before thee, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed thy words, for thou are righteous.

⁷² to do mercy with our fathers, and his holy covenant to be remembered, ⁷³ the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to give to us,

²⁵ Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made for our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed all the patriarchies of the earth will be blessed.

¹⁵ Brothers (I speak according to a man), in the same way of a man, no man annuls or adds to a contract that has been ratified. ¹⁶ Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, And to the seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, who is Christ. ¹⁷ And I say this, a covenant previously confirmed by God in Christ, the law, which happened four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul in order to make the promise useless.

¹³ For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself, ¹⁴ saying, Surely indeed, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. ¹⁵ And this way, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation. ¹⁷ By which God, wanting to demonstrate more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutableness of his resolve, confirmed it by an oath. ¹⁸ So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

¹⁷ And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹¹ And ye went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. And I delivered them into your hand. ¹² And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. ¹³ And I gave you a land in which thou had not labored, and cities which ye did not build, and ye dwell in it. Ye eat of vineyards and oliveyards which ye did not plant.

⁵ Truly my house is not so with God. Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. For it is all my salvation, and all my desire, though he does not make it to grow.

¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law.

³ Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things of David.

² Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant-our Lord Jesus-

¹⁵ For all the land which thou see, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed forever.

⁸ And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

⁵³ To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. ⁵⁴ To the many thou shall give more inheritance, and to the few thou shall give less inheritance: to each one according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given. ⁵⁵ Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. They shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. ⁵⁶ According to the lot their inheritance shall be divided between the many and the fewer.

⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

⁵ Therefore thou shall have nobody to cast the line by lot in the assembly of LORD.

³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

⁷ LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all peoples,

⁵ And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep. And he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, although there was no child by him.

¹³ All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

¹ And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation.

⁶ And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

¹⁷ And LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou are but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou have taken, for she is a man's wife.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

²⁹ It is in the power of my hand to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

¹⁵ Get thee to Pharaoh in the morning, lo, he goes out to the water, and thou shall stand by the river's edge to meet him, and the rod which was turned to a serpent thou shall take in thy hand. ¹⁶ And thou shall say to him, LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. And, behold, until now thou have not hearkened. ¹⁷ Thus says LORD, In this thou shall know that I am LORD. Behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. ¹⁸ And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul, and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.

¹³ And LORD said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says LORD, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. ¹⁴ For this time I will send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, that thou may know that there is none like me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For now I have put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou have been cut off from the earth. ¹⁶ But indeed for this cause I have raised thee up, to display in thee my power, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. ¹⁷ As yet thou exalt thyself against my people, that thou will not let them go? ¹⁸ Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.

³⁹ And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above. ⁴⁰ And by thy sword thou shall live, and thou shall serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shall break loose, that thou shall shake his yoke from off thy neck.

¹⁹ And his father refused, and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

⁸ Judah, thy brothers shall praise thee. Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him up? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs, and to him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

¹⁶ And thou shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel. And thou shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah to be prophet in thy place.

¹⁵ saying, Touch not my anointed men, and do my prophets no harm.

²⁷ And for you, the anointing that ye received from him abides in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is no lie, and just as it taught you, ye will abide in him.

²¹ And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

⁹ Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Talk ye of all his marvelous works.

⁴ Sing praise to LORD, O ye sanctified of his, and give thanks to his holiness.

¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, of thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers.

¹ O sing to LORD a new song. Sing to LORD, all the earth. ² Sing to LORD, bless his name. Show forth his salvation from day to day. ³ Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. ⁴ For great is LORD, and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods. ⁵ For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but LORD made the heavens. ⁶ Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. ⁷ Ascribe to LORD, ye kindred of the peoples. Ascribe to LORD glory and strength. ⁸ Ascribe to LORD the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts. ⁹ O worship LORD in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth. ¹⁰ Say among the nations, LORD reigns! The world also is established that it cannot be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity. ¹¹ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof. ¹² Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the wood shall sing for joy ¹³ before LORD, for he comes. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.

⁵ Sing to LORD, for he has done excellent things. Let this be known in all the earth.

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. ⁷ Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings. ⁸ For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to LORD, and all the kinfolk of the nations shall worship before thee.

² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, even LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. ³ Therefore with joy ye shall draw water out of the wells of salvation. ⁴ And in that day ye shall say, Give thanks to LORD. Call upon his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Make mention that his name is exalted. ⁵ Sing to LORD, for he has done excellent things. Let this be known in all the earth. ⁶ Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. ² It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has wrought toward me. ³ How great are his signs, and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

¹¹ Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

³ Say to God, How awesome are thy works! Through the greatness of thy power thine enemies shall submit themselves to thee. ⁴ All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing to thee. They shall sing to thy name. Selah. ⁵ Come, and see the works of God, awesome in actions toward the sons of men.

⁷ Thou, even thou, are to be feared. And who may stand in thy sight when once thou are angry?

⁷ a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him?

³ LORD, what is man, that thou take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou make account of him? ⁴ Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away. ⁵ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? ¹³ Who has known the mind of LORD, or being his counselor has taught him? ¹⁴ With whom did he take counsel. And who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice. And taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? ¹⁵ Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing. ¹⁶ And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt offering. ¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

²² Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail, though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

⁶ There is none like thee, O LORD. Thou are great, and thy name is great in might. ⁷ Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? For to thee it appertains, inasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like thee. ⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood. ⁹ There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith, blue and purple for their clothing. They are all the work of skilful men. ¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

³ And they sing the song of Moses the bondman of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the nations. ⁴ Who will, no, not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, because thou alone are holy? Because all the nations will come and worship before thee, because thy righteous deeds were made known.

⁴ Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am LORD your God.

²⁵ Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. ⁶ They have ears, but they hear not. They have noses, but they smell not. ⁷ They have hands, but they handle not. They have feet, but they walk not, nor do they speak through their throat. ⁸ Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might. And because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

⁵ Thus says God, LORD, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth, he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it,

⁹ Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame. ¹⁰ Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing? ¹¹ Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the workmen. They are of men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They shall fear. They shall be put to shame together. ¹² The smith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint. ¹³ The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. And he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. ¹⁴ He hews down cedars for him, and takes the holm tree and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. ¹⁵ Then it shall be for a man to burn. And he takes of it, and warms himself. Yea, he kindles it, and bakes bread. Yea, he makes a god, and worships it. He makes it a graven image, and falls down to it. ¹⁶ He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it he eats flesh. He roasts roast, and is satisfied. Yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And the residue of it he makes a god, even his graven image. He falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for thou are my god. ¹⁸ They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand. ¹⁹ And none calls to mind, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire. Yea, I have also baked bread upon the coals of it. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? ²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

²⁴ Thus says LORD, thy Redeemer, and he who formed thee from the womb: I am LORD, who makes all things, who stretches forth the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?),

¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. ¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. ¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. ¹³ When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. ¹⁴ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

²⁶ And ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this man Paul, having persuaded them, turned away a considerable multitude, saying that there are no gods made by hands.

⁴ Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

⁷ saying in a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. And worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and springs of waters.

¹ O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory upon the heavens!

¹¹ Thou made known to me the path of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance.

⁴ One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple. ⁵ For in the day of trouble he will hide me in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up upon a rock. ⁶ And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises to LORD.

⁷ LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him. ⁸ LORD is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

² For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ³ O send out thy light and thy truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. ⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.

² So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary to see thy power and thy glory. ³ Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

⁶ Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

²⁴ Father, whom thou gave to me, I desire that where I am, they also may be with me, so that they may see my glory that thou have given me, because thou loved me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁰ Therefore David praised LORD before all the assembly. And David said, Blessed be thou, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. ¹¹ Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou are exalted as head above all. ¹² Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou rule over all. And in thy hand is power and might. And in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all. ¹³ Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. ¹⁴ But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

¹ Ascribe to LORD, O ye sons of the mighty, ascribe to LORD glory and strength. ² Ascribe to LORD the glory due to his name. Worship LORD in holy array.

¹ Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth. ² Sing forth the glory of his name. Make his praise glorious.

⁴ O let the nations be glad and sing for joy. For thou will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

⁷ God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

³⁴ Ascribe ye strength to God. His excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the skies.

⁸ There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor like thy works. ⁹ All nations whom thou have made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and they shall glorify thy name. ¹⁰ For thou are great, and do wondrous things. Thou alone are God.

⁴ Make a joyful noise to LORD, all the earth. Break forth and sing for joy, yea, sing praises.

¹ Make a joyful noise to LORD, all ye lands. ² Serve LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

¹ Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory. For thy loving kindness, and for thy truth's sake. ² Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?

¹⁰ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he who arises to rule over the Gentiles. In him shall the Gentiles hope, and his resting-place shall be glorious.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁶ for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.

¹⁷ So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him, ¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified, ¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might,

¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me.

⁴¹ Moreover concerning the foreigner who is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name's sake ⁴² (for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thine outstretched arm), when he shall come and pray toward this house, ⁴³ hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to thee for, that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as does thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

²¹ And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who should sing to LORD, and give praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks to LORD. For his loving kindness is forever.

² Ascribe to LORD the glory due to his name. Worship LORD in holy array.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

³⁰ Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples, trampling under foot the pieces of silver. He has scattered the peoples that delight in war. ³¹ Rulers shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹⁵ and they shall live. And to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. And men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all the day long.

⁵ And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD, thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the sanctified. ⁶ For who in the clouds can be compared to LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like LORD, ⁷ a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him? ⁸ O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one like thee, O LORD? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

⁹ O worship LORD in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

³ I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the peoples, and I will sing praises to thee among the nations. ⁴ For thy loving kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth is to the skies. ⁵ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth.

³ Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.

¹³ Let them praise the name of LORD, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens. ¹⁴ And he has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his sanctified, even of the sons of Israel, a people near to him. Praise ye LORD.

³ And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is LORD of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.

⁶ The multitude of camels shall cover thee. The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of LORD. ⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to thee. The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee. They shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

²⁰ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty, but they made the images of their abominations, and their detestable things in it. Therefore I have made it as an unclean thing to them.

²⁵ And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that upon which they set their heart-their sons and their daughters-

⁹ And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne, he who lives into the ages of the ages, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders would fall down before him who sits on the throne, and would worship him who lives into the ages of the ages, and would cast their crowns before the throne, saying, ¹¹ Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.

¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing! ¹³ And every creature that is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and is in the sea, and things in them all, I heard saying, The blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion is to him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, into the ages of the ages. Truly! ¹⁴ And the four living creatures were saying the Truly. And the elders fell down and worshiped.

¹² saying, Truly! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and strength, is for our God into the ages of the ages. Truly!

²³ Sing to LORD, all the earth. Show forth his salvation from day to day.

²⁵ For great is LORD, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

⁹ For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast.

¹ LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty. LORD is clothed with strength; he has girded himself with it. The world also is established that it cannot be moved.

⁵ Let them praise the name of LORD. For he commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which shall not pass away.

⁸ Thus says LORD, In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in a day of salvation I have helped thee. And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages,

¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

³ Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heights.

¹⁵ And the seventh agent sounded, and great voices occurred in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will reign into the ages of the ages.

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.

⁵ And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD, thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the sanctified.

¹ LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty. LORD is clothed with strength; he has girded himself with it. The world also is established that it cannot be moved. ² Thy throne is established of old. Thou are from everlasting.

¹⁰ Say among the nations, LORD reigns! The world also is established that it cannot be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

¹ LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice. Let the multitude of isles be glad.

¹ LORD reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits above the cherubim, let the earth be moved.

¹ I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Praise ye LORD from the heavens. Praise him in the heights. ² Praise ye him, all his agents. Praise ye him, all his host. ³ Praise ye him, sun and moon. Praise him, all ye stars of light. ⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.

²² For LORD is our judge. LORD is our lawgiver. LORD is our king, he will save us.

²³ Sing, O ye heavens, for LORD has done it. Shout, ye lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein. For LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

¹³ Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains. For LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.

¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because from thee is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Truly.

¹⁰ And the agent said to them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be to all the people,

¹³ And suddenly there came to be with the agent a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill among men.

¹⁰ Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.

⁶ And I heard as the sound of a large multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, Praise the Lord! Because the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.

⁴ Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, LORD on high is mighty.

⁷ Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell in it. ⁸ Let the floods clap their hands. Let the hills sing for joy together

⁹ mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars, ¹⁰ beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds,

⁹ before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

²² Thus says the lord LORD: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it. I will crop off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain. ²³ I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel, and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar. And all birds of every wing shall dwell under it; they shall dwell in the shade of the branches thereof. ²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I, LORD, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I, LORD, have spoken and have done it.

⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed).

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

¹⁷ saying, We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, who is and was, because thou have taken thy great power and reigned. ¹⁸ And the nations were angry. And thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to thy bondmen the prophets, and to the sanctified, and to those who fear thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.

¹³ it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking LORD. And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised LORD, saying, For he is good. For his loving kindness is forever, that the house was then filled with a cloud, even the house of LORD,

³ And all the sons of Israel looked on when the fire came down, and the glory of LORD was upon the house. And they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to LORD, saying, For he is good. For his loving kindness is forever.

¹¹ And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to LORD, saying, For he is good, for his loving kindness is forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised LORD, because the foundation of the house of LORD was laid.

¹ Praise ye LORD. O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness is forever.

¹ O give thanks to LORD, For he is good, for his loving kindness is forever.

¹ O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness is forever.

¹ O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness is forever. ² O give thanks to the God of gods, for his loving kindness is forever. ³ O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁴ to him who alone does great wonders, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁵ to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁶ to him who spread forth the earth above the waters, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁷ to him who made great lights, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁸ the sun to rule by day, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁹ the moon and stars to rule by night, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁰ to him who smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹¹ and brought out Israel from among them, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹² with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹³ to him who divided the Red Sea apart, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁴ and made Israel to pass through the midst of it, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁵ but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁶ to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁷ to him who smote great kings, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁸ and killed famous kings, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving kindness is forever, ²⁰ and Og king of Bashan, for his loving kindness is forever, ²¹ and gave their land for a heritage, for his loving kindness is forever, ²² even a heritage to Israel his servant, for his loving kindness is forever, ²³ who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness is forever, ²⁴ and has delivered us from our adversaries, for his loving kindness is forever, ²⁵ who gives food to all flesh, for his loving kindness is forever. ²⁶ O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loving kindness is forever.

¹¹ the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to LORD of hosts, for LORD is good, for his loving kindness is forever, and of those who bring thanksgiving into the house of LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says LORD.

⁹ Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Talk ye of all his marvelous works. ¹⁰ Glory ye in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek LORD rejoice.

⁷ O that the salvation of Israel came out of Zion! When LORD brings back the captivity of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

⁸ In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to thy name forever. Selah.

⁶ O that the salvation of Israel came out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name. And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake. ¹⁰ Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise ye LORD.

⁴⁷ Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Truly. Praise ye LORD.

²¹ the people whom I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

³¹ so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

¹² for us to be for appreciation of his glory, men who have first hoped in the Christ.

⁵ ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Truly. ¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁷ Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁸ Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁹ Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁰ Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²¹ Cursed be he who lies with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²² Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²³ Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁴ Cursed be he who smites his neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁵ Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent man. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁶ Cursed is every man who does not continue in all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Truly.

⁵⁶ Blessed be LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

⁶ And Ezra blessed LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Truly, Truly, with the lifting up of their hands. And they bowed their heads, and worshiped LORD with their faces to the ground.

¹⁸ Blessed be LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. ¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name forever. And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Truly, and Truly.

⁶ even the prophet Jeremiah said, Truly! LORD do so. LORD perform thy words which thou have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of LORD's house, and all those of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.

¹⁶ Otherwise if thou would bless with the spirit, how will the man who fills the place of the unlearned, say the Truly at thy thanksgiving, since he knows not what thou say?

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things in Christ.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁴ And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise LORD, the God of Israel: ⁵ Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps, and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud, ⁶ and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

¹⁴ And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required, also the porters by their divisions at every gate. For so David the man of God had commanded.

⁴ And they kept the feast of tabernacles as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required.

¹⁴ And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.

³ Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising LORD.

⁴ And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, ⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth, for God blessed him. ⁶ Also sons were born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father, for they were mighty men of valor. ⁷ The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. ⁸ All these were of the sons of Obed-edom, they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service, sixty-two of Obed-edom.

¹⁰ Also Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

⁴ And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar.

²⁸ and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.

¹¹ And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab.

²⁹ For the tabernacle of LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

³ So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon. For the tent of meeting of God was there, which Moses the servant of LORD had made in the wilderness. ⁴ But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it. For he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

¹³ So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem, and he reigned over Israel.

³⁸ Now this is that which thou shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. ³⁹ The one lamb thou shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shall offer at evening. ⁴⁰ And with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹ And the other lamb thou shall offer at evening, and shall do thereto according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering of it, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to LORD. ⁴² It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to thee there.

³ And thou shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer to LORD: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. ⁴ The one lamb thou shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shall offer at evening, ⁵ and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. ⁶ It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained on mount Sinai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to LORD. ⁷ And the drink offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. In the holy place thou shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to LORD. ⁸ And the other lamb thou shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, thou shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD.

²⁹ And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening oblation, but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

⁴ Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

³ Also he appointed the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, namely, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of LORD.

³ And they set the altar upon its base, for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the countries. And they offered burnt offerings on it to LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

¹³ And thou shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to LORD daily. Thou shall prepare it morning by morning. ¹⁴ And thou shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour, a meal offering to LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance. ¹⁵ Thus they shall prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.

²¹ yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

⁴ Come to Bethel and transgress, to Gilgal and multiply transgression. And bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days.

¹⁷ And Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name,

³³ And these are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, ⁴⁰ the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, ⁴¹ the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, ⁴² the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, ⁴³ the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. ⁴⁴ And on the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, ⁴⁵ the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶ the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ⁴⁷ the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

³¹ And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.

³⁷ So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of LORD, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required,

²⁰ and of the Nethinim, whom David and the rulers had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim. All of them were mentioned by name.

¹⁷ But the loving kindness of LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to son's sons,

⁵⁰ And his mercy is for generations of generations to those who fear him.

⁶ All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king. ⁷ And the number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to LORD, even all who were skilful, was two hundred eighty-eight.

⁶ And the priests stood according to their offices, also the Levites with instruments of music of LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to LORD (for his loving kindness is forever) when David praised by their ministry, and the priests sounded trumpets before them. And all Israel stood.

²⁵ And he set the Levites in the house of LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet. For the commandment was of LORD by his prophets.

¹⁰ For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

³ Praise him with trumpet sound. Praise him with psaltery and harp. ⁴ Praise him with timbrel and dance. Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe. ⁵ Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with high sounding cymbals. ⁶ Let everything that has breath praise LORD. Praise ye LORD.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to serve LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve LORD.

¹⁹ And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed every one to his house. ²⁰ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

⁶⁶ On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

² I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will thou come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.