Isaiah 29:13 Cross References - BBE

¹³ And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

¹ Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old; and he was king in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. ² He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done. ³ In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong. ⁴ And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side, ⁵ And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place. ⁶ For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him. ⁷ The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place. ⁸ And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen. ⁹ For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this. ¹⁰ Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us. ¹¹ My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him. ¹² Then the Levites took their places; Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel, the son of Azariah, among the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish, the son of Abdi, and Azariah, the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah, the son of Zimmah, and Eden, the son of Joah; ¹³ And of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; ¹⁴ And of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. ¹⁵ And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean. ¹⁶ And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron. ¹⁷ On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done. ¹⁸ Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, We have made all the house of the Lord clean, as well as the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the table for the holy bread, with all its vessels. ¹⁹ And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord. ²⁰ Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord. ²¹ And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord. ²² So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to death, draining out their blood against the altar, and they put the lambs to death, draining out their blood against the altar. ²³ Then they took the he-goats for the sin-offering, placing them before the king and the meeting of the people, and they put their hands on them: ²⁴ And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel. ²⁵ Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets. ²⁶ So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns. ²⁷ And Hezekiah gave the word for the burned offering to be offered on the altar. And when the burned offering was started, then the song of the Lord was started, with the blowing of horns and with all the instruments of David, king of Israel. ²⁸ And all the people gave worship, to the sound of songs and the blowing of horns; and this went on till the burned offering was ended. ²⁹ And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads. ³⁰ Then King Hezekiah and the captains gave orders to the Levites to give praise to God in the words of David and Asaph the seer. And they made songs of praise with joy, and with bent heads gave worship. ³¹ Then Hezekiah made answer and said, Now that you have given yourselves to the Lord, come near and take offerings and praise-offerings into the house of the Lord. So all the people took in offerings and praise-offerings: and those whose hearts were moved, took in burned offerings.

¹ A Prayer. Of David. Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

⁶ Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

⁶ I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

¹ Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith. ² For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.

² Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God. ³ They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

¹⁰ But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

² And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.

² They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

² And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see: ³ That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do. ⁴ Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.

²⁰ For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

³¹ And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. ³² And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not. ³³ And when this comes about see, it is coming, then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.

² Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands. ³ And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you? ⁴ For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. ⁵ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; ⁶ There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching. ⁷ You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you, ⁸ These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁹ But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

² And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. ³ Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them: ⁴ And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels. ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands? ⁶ And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷ But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men. ⁸ For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men. ⁹ And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you. ¹⁰ For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: ¹¹ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God, ¹² You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother; ¹³ Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

²² Rules which are all to come to an end with their use after the orders and teaching of men?