1 Chronicles 17 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent. ² And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you. ³ But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place: ⁵ For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place. ⁶ In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar? ⁷ So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel; ⁸ And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth. ⁹ And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first, ¹⁰ From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings. ¹¹ And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong. ¹² He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever. ¹³ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you; ¹⁴ But I will make his place in my house and in my kingdom certain for ever; and the seat of his authority will never be overturned. ¹⁵ So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision. ¹⁶ Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now? ¹⁷ And this was only a small thing to you, O God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, looking on me as on one of high position, O Lord God. ¹⁸ What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant. ¹⁹ O Lord, because of your servant, and from your heart, you have done all these great things and let them be seen. ²⁰ O Lord, there is no one like you, and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears. ²¹ And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, making his name great and to be feared, driving out the nations from before your people whom you made free and took out of Egypt? ²² For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God. ²³ And now, Lord, let your words about your servant and about his family be made certain for ever, and do as you have said. ²⁴ So let your words be made certain and your name be made great, when men say, The Lord of armies is the God of Israel; and when the family of David your servant is made strong before you. ²⁵ For you, O my God, have let your servant see that you will make him head of a line of kings; and so it has come into your servant's heart to make his prayer to you. ²⁶ And now, O Lord, you are God, and you have said you will give this good thing to your servant: ²⁷ And now you have been pleased to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you; you, O Lord, have given your blessing, and a blessing will be on it for ever.

¹⁵ As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

⁷ And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

³³ And in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat and put it before me, and I took it all before you came, and gave him a blessing, and his it will be?

¹⁵ And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

¹⁰ I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.

¹² And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

¹⁵ And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day, ¹⁶ The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

¹³ And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: ¹⁴ And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

²¹ And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.

²³ Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

¹ Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ² And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up. ³ And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned up, ⁴ And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. ⁵ And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. ⁶ And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God. ⁷ And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

⁷ And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows; ⁸ And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

⁸ And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ⁹ For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them. ¹⁰ Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

¹¹ Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?

¹¹ Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.

⁴ You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself. ⁵ If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: ⁶ And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

¹⁴ And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest. ¹⁵ And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.

⁶ And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; ⁷ Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

² On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting. ³ And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it.

¹⁹ Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders. ²⁰ And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it; ²¹ And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.

³⁵ So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord. ³⁶ And whenever the cloud was taken up from the House, the children of Israel went forward on their journey: ³⁷ But while the cloud was there, they made no move till it was taken up. ³⁸ For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day, and at night there was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of all the people of Israel, and so it was through all their journeys.

¹¹ And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust. ¹² And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.

³³ So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them; ³⁴ And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents. ³⁵ And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you. ³⁶ And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and give a blessing to the families of Israel.

⁶ And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.

²⁴ O Lord God, you have now for the first time let your servant see your great power and the strength of your hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth able to do such great works and such acts of power?

⁷ For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

³² Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story. ³³ Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did? ³⁴ Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes? ³⁵ All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.

³⁹ So today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts, that the Lord is God, in heaven on high and here on earth; there is no other God.

¹ When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; ² And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

⁶ For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth. ⁷ The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: ⁸ But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

¹⁵ And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

¹⁴ For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.

¹⁸ And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders; ¹⁹ And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

²⁶ No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.

²⁶ No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies. ²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them. ²⁸ And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens. ²⁹ Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

¹⁴ And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.

⁴² And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

⁴³ So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place. ⁴⁴ And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands. ⁴⁵ The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.

¹¹ Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands. ¹² And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

¹⁴ And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them. ¹⁵ Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them. ¹⁶ Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them. ¹⁷ But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so. ¹⁸ And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.

⁸ So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.

³ Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.

³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; ⁴ And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. ⁵ For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. ⁶ And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.

¹⁵ And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

² No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.

³⁰ For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

¹² Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.

¹⁵ Now the day before Saul came, the word of God had come to Samuel, saying,

²¹ And Saul said, Am I not a man of Benjamin, the smallest of all the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of the families of Benjamin? why then do you say these words to me?

⁷ And when these signs come to you, see that you take the chance which is offered you; for God is with you.

¹¹ So the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and took you out of the power of those who were fighting against you on every side, and made you safe.

²² For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

⁵ And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. ⁶ When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, for the people were troubled, they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.

¹⁹ Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears: ²⁰ But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;

²⁸ And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

¹¹ Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here. ¹² So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.

¹⁵ Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

¹⁴ And in all his undertakings David did wisely; and the Lord was with him.

²⁸ And it was clear to Saul that the Lord was with David; and he was loved by all Israel.

¹⁰ And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.

¹ Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers. ⁴ Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself. ⁵ And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and was united with him in death. ⁶ So death overtook Saul and his three sons and his servant on the same day.

¹⁷ And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

²¹ And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord;

¹ Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side; ² The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent. ³ And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.

³ And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you. ⁴ Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

⁴ Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

⁵ Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me? ⁶ For from the day when I took the children of Israel up out of Egypt till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from place to place in a tent.

⁶ For from the day when I took the children of Israel up out of Egypt till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from place to place in a tent. ⁷ In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

⁷ In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar? ⁸ Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

⁸ Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel: ⁹ And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

⁹ And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth. ¹⁰ And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be living in the place which is theirs, and never again be moved; and never again will they be troubled by evil men as they were at the first, ¹¹ From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.

¹¹ From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings. ¹² And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.

¹² And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong. ¹³ He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

¹³ He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever. ¹⁴ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

¹⁴ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men; ¹⁵ But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

¹⁵ But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. ¹⁶ And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.

¹⁶ And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned. ¹⁷ So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.

¹⁷ So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision. ¹⁸ Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

¹⁸ Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now? ¹⁹ And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

¹⁹ And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God! ²⁰ What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.

²⁰ What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God. ²¹ Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.

²¹ Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.

²¹ Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it. ²² Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

²² Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears. ²³ And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

²³ And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people? ²⁴ But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

²⁴ But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God. ²⁵ And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said! ²⁶ And let your name be made great for ever, and let men say, The Lord of armies is God over Israel: and let the family of David your servant be made strong before you! ²⁷ For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you. ²⁸ And now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are true and you have said you will give your servant this good thing; ²⁹ So may it be your pleasure to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you: for you, O Lord God, have said it, and may your blessing be on your servant's family line for ever!

⁶ And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

⁸ And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

¹³ And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men. ¹⁴ And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

¹ And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.

⁸ I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.

²⁴ And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord. ²⁵ And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.

²⁵ And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.

¹ And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:

³⁸ I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome. ³⁹ I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet. ⁴⁰ For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me. ⁴¹ By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

⁸ But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.

²¹ For as things are, it will come about, when my lord the king is sleeping with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son will be made outlaws.

²³ And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.

⁴⁴ And he sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they put him on the king's beast:

¹⁰ Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

¹³ And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.

⁵ And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

⁴ They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

¹⁶ From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

¹⁹ But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name. ²⁰ And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

²⁷ But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

¹² I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son. ¹³ Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

³⁶ And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.

¹⁸ And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

¹⁴ And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord.

¹ In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near. ² Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, ³ O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping. ⁴ Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁵ Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

¹⁴ And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.

² In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

¹ And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

¹ And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.

¹ Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.

² And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.

⁵ For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

⁷ So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel; ⁸ And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

¹¹ And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong. ¹² He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

¹² He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever. ¹³ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you; ¹⁴ But I will make his place in my house and in my kingdom certain for ever; and the seat of his authority will never be overturned. ¹⁵ So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.

¹⁷ And this was only a small thing to you, O God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, looking on me as on one of high position, O Lord God.

⁷ And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

⁷ And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God. ⁸ But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes. ⁹ But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet; ¹⁰ He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

² Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

² Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it. ³ But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;

⁵ And of all my sons for the Lord has given me a great number of sons he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. ⁶ And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father. ⁷ I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day. ⁸ So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever. ⁹ And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever. ¹⁰ Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

¹¹ Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all. ¹² Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.

¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

²⁸ And he came to his end after a long life, full of days and great wealth and honour; and Solomon his son became king in his place. ²⁹ Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;

⁴ But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

⁶ But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

¹ Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ² The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule. ³ And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. ⁴ And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

⁷ Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁸ But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name: ⁹ But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

¹⁸ But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

³³ Then give ear from heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and may see that this house which I have made is truly named by your name.

²⁰ Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.

¹¹ And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

¹⁰ And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.

⁶ But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.

¹² For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

¹⁷ Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said, I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.

⁴⁰ By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off. ⁴¹ They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer. ⁴² Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets. ⁴³ You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants. ⁴⁴ From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority. ⁴⁵ They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear. ⁴⁶ The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured. ⁴⁷ It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule. ⁴⁸ He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man. ⁴⁹ Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name. ⁵⁰ Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

⁴ May he give you your heart's desire, and put all your purposes into effect.

⁸ Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you. ⁹ You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

¹³ Be lifted up, O Lord, in your strength; so will we make songs in praise of your power.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil. It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times, ² Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

² Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people. ³ For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

⁷ The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah.

¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah.

⁵ You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;

³ Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet. ⁴ Let all the earth give you worship, and make songs to you; let them make songs to your name. Selah. ⁵ Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men. ⁶ The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him. ⁷ He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. Selah.

²¹ You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

¹⁷ May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

¹⁹ Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

⁷ But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

¹⁵ With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

³ Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers. ⁴ We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

⁷⁰ He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

⁷⁰ He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks; ⁷¹ From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

⁷¹ From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage. ⁷² So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.

⁸ There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.

⁴ I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. Selah.

⁶ For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

⁸ O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

¹⁹ Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people. ²⁰ I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head. ²¹ My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength. ²² The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

²² The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil. ²³ I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

²³ I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows. ²⁴ But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up. ²⁵ I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶ He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. ²⁷ And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth. ²⁸ I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed. ²⁹ His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.

²⁹ His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens. ³⁰ If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; ³¹ If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; ³² Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing. ³³ But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith. ³⁴ I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. ³⁵ I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David. ³⁶ His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

³⁶ His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me. ³⁷ It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. Selah.

¹⁷ Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.

¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.

² Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

³ His work is full of honour and glory; and his righteousness is unchanging for ever.

⁶ He has made clear to his people the power of his works, giving them the heritage of the nations.

⁹ He has sent salvation to his people; he has given his word for ever: holy is his name and greatly to be feared.

⁷ He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position; ⁸ To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

³ The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. ⁵ What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? ⁶ You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? ⁷ Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob; ⁸ Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

⁴⁹ ZAIN Keep in mind your word to your servant, for on it has my hope been fixed.

¹ A Song of the going up. Of Solomon. If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

⁵ Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

¹¹ The Lord gave a true oath to David, which he will not take back, saying, I will give your kingdom to the fruit of your body.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

³ Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

²⁰ He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

⁷ Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

²¹ And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

³⁵ For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

¹⁸ Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

²⁵ Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.

¹ See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

¹⁰ You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.

⁶ The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:

²² Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

⁹ Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.

³ And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen;

⁵ And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength. ⁶ It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

⁶ It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

¹⁷ Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.

³ Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord. ⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁸ Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.

³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

⁹ It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

¹² He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;

³ While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.

¹ The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place? ² For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

⁶ There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power. ⁷ Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

⁵ So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.

¹⁵ Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

⁴ And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord. ⁵ See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.

²⁸ If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.

⁶ For I will keep my eyes on them for good, and I will take them back again to this land, building them up and not pulling them down, planting them and not uprooting them.

¹ At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.

³ From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me. ⁴ I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad. ⁵ Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit. ⁶ For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God. ⁷ For the Lord has said, Make a glad song for Jacob and give a cry on the top of the mountains: give the news, give praise, and say, The Lord has given salvation to his people, even to the rest of Israel. ⁸ See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here. ⁹ They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons. ¹⁰ Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock. ¹¹ For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he. ¹² So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

³¹ See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah: ³² Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord. ³³ But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴ And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

⁴¹ And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.

⁹ And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ So I made them go out of the land of Egypt and took them into the waste land.

⁴ By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:

² Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?

¹³ And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.

¹⁴ For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord. ¹⁵ And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.

³⁷ This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

²⁵ And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.

⁴ I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house:

²⁹ At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of his great house in Babylon. ³⁰ The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

¹⁷ And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.

⁷ Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.

¹⁴ Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees: ¹⁵ And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.

¹⁵ And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

⁴ And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

⁴ Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

⁹ You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

¹² And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth. ¹³ And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace.

²³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

⁹ And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

⁶ You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

¹⁸ And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. ²⁰ And straight away they let go the nets and went after him. ²¹ And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come. ²² And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.

⁹ Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

²⁸ And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you.

³² He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:

³² He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father: ³³ He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

³⁸ And Mary said: I am the servant of the Lord; may it be to me as you say. And the angel went away.

⁵² He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.

¹⁰ And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.

³⁵ And there was a voice from the cloud saying, This is my Son, the man of my selection; give ear to him.

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days. ²⁰ The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days! ²¹ But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

³⁵ The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.

²⁸ Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

¹ Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:

¹⁷ He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

²⁹ My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

⁴⁴ Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen. ⁴⁵ Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David, ⁴⁶ Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

⁴⁶ Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But Solomon was the builder of his house.

⁴⁷ But Solomon was the builder of his house. ⁴⁸ But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

⁴⁸ But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says, ⁴⁹ Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest? ⁵⁰ Did not my hand make all these things?

²⁰ And after these things he gave them judges, till the time of Samuel the prophet.

³⁶ Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

²⁷ For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

²² And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;

³ About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David, ⁴ But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,

⁴ Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God: ⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. ⁶ But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

²⁵ As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved. ²⁶ And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

¹ So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel, ³ Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life. ⁴ But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal. ⁵ In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace. ⁶ But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace. ⁷ What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard. ⁸ As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment: ¹⁰ Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times. ¹¹ So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy. ¹² Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

²⁹ Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out. ³⁴ Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?

⁹ For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:

²⁵ For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.

¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁸ And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

⁹ Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands ¹⁰ The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say, ¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God; ³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

¹¹ Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

⁶ Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

⁸ And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross. ⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name; ¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld, ¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁹ For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

⁵ To which of the angels did God say at any time, You are my Son, this day I have given you being? or, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son?

⁶ But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

¹⁰ For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

¹⁶ But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

¹¹ If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

¹⁴ And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us: ¹⁵ And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

¹ To the angel of the church in Ephesus say: These things says he who has the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the middle of the seven gold lights:

²³ And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.

¹⁵ And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.

³ And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God. ⁴ And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.