2 Chronicles 10 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now Jeroboam son of Nabat had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and taken up his abode in Egypt. But receiving intelligence in Egypt, and being sent for he had returned from Egypt. ² So when Roboam went to Sychem [for to Sychem all Israel went to make him king] ³ Jeroboam and all the congregation came to Roboam and said, ⁴ Thy father made our yoke heavy, now therefore abate something of the grievous service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke, which he laid on us, and we will serve thee. ⁵ Thereupon he said to them, Go away for three days and then come to me. And when the people were gone, ⁶ king Roboam assembled the elders who had stood before his father Solomon in his life time, and said to them, How do you advise me to answer this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him saying, If thou indulge the people this day, and soothe them, and speak kindly to them, they will be thy servants forever. ⁸ But he slighted the counsel which the elders gave him, and consulted the young men, who had been brought up with him, and who waited on him, ⁹ and said to them, What answer do you advise me to give to this people, who have spoken to me saying, Abate something of the yoke, which thy father laid upon us. ¹⁰ And the young men, who had been brought up with him, spoke to him saying, Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who hath spoken to thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou therefore lighten it for us; thus thou shalt say, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. ¹¹ Now therefore my father chastened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips; but I will chastise you with scorpions. ¹² So when Jeroboam and all the people came to Roboam on the third day, as the king had spoken saying, Come again to me on the third day, ¹³ the king answered them roughly. King Roboam slighted the counsel of the elders, ¹⁴ and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. ¹⁵ So the king did not hearken to the people; for the revolution was from God. And upon one's saying, The Lord hath established his word which he spoke by the ministry of Achia the Selonite concerning Jeroboam son of Nabat, and all Israel; ¹⁶ for the king hath not hearkened to them, the people answered the king, and said, What portion have we in David? And what inheritance in the son of Jessai? To your tents Israel! Now David, look thou to thine own house. So Israel went away to their habitations; ¹⁷ and when some men of Israel and they who dwelt in the cities of Juda, had made Roboam king over them, ¹⁸ and Roboam the king sent to them Adoniram, who was over the tribute, the sons of Israel stoned him with stones, till he died. Upon which the king Roboam hastened to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem; ¹⁹ and Israel revolted from the house of David to this day.

⁶ And Abram travelled through the land lengthwise till he came to the place of Sychem to the lofty Oak. Now the Chananites at that time inhabited that land.

¹² After this his brothers having gone to Sychem to feed their father's flocks, ¹³ Israel said to Joseph, Are not thy brothers tending the flocks at Sychem? Come, let me send thee to them. And he said, I am ready.

⁷ And when Joseph saw his brothers he knew them and was reserved and spoke harshly to them and said to them, Whence come you? And they said, From the land of Chanaan to buy food.

³⁰ The man the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and put us in prison as coming to spy the country;

²¹ Nephthaleim is a spreading stock, Super-adding beauty by its product.

¹³ and the Egyptians ruled over the Israelites with rigour ¹⁴ and made their lives bitter with hard labour in working clay and making bricks and with all the toils of the field, according to the several kinds of service to which they forcibly subjected them.

²³ And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outcry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to God.

⁵ And Pharao said, Behold this people is now numerous, therefore we must not let them rest from their labours. ⁶ So Pharao gave orders to the task masters of the people and to the clerks saying, ⁷ You shall no more give the people straw to make bricks as heretofore; but let them go and gather straw for themselves; ⁸ yet the daily task of brick making which they now perform, you shall lay upon them. Thou shalt make no abatement; for they are idle. Therefore they have cried saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. ⁹ Let the work of these men be made heavy and let them employ their thoughts about that, and not trouble themselves with vain discourses.

¹⁸ Go therefore now and work; for there shall be no straw given you, yet you shall deliver the task of bricks.

²⁸ therefore Pharao said, Begone from me. Take heed to thyself not to see my face any more. For the day thou appearest before me thou shalt die.

³⁰ But Seon, king of Esebon, would not consent that we should pass by him, for the Lord our God had emboldened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as at this day.

⁹ and Joshua caused twelve other stones to be placed in the Jordan, in the very spot under the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and they are there at this day.

⁷ and he had set apart Kades, in Galilee, on mount Nephthaleim, and Sychem, on mount Ephraim, and the city Arbok, which is Chebron, on the mountain of Juda:

¹ Again Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Se lo, and having convened their elders, and their under officers, and their judges, and placed them before God,

³⁵ nor did they deal kindly with the house of Jerobaal, namely Gideon, according to all the good which he had done for Israel.

¹ For when Abimelech, son of Jerobaal, went to Sychem, to his mother's brethren, and spoke to them, and to all the relations of the house of his mother's father, saying,

⁴ His father and his mother did not know that it was of the Lord, that he was seeking to take vengeance on the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

²⁵ If one man sin against another, intercession can be made for him to the Lord; but if he sin against the Lord, who can intercede for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, wherefore the Lord determined to destroy them.

¹¹ and said, This will be the prerogative of the king who shall reign over you. He will take your sons, and appoint them for his chariots, and for his horsemen, and some to run before his chariots, ¹² and others to be made for him captains of hundreds, and captains of thousands, and some to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and to make his implements of war, and arms for his chariots. ¹³ And he will take your daughters for confectioners, and cooks, and bakers. ¹⁴ And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive orchards, and give them to his slaves. ¹⁵ And he will take the tenth of your crops, and vineyards, and give it to his officers and vassals. ¹⁶ He will take also your men servants, and your maid servants, and the best of your herds, and your asses, even the tenth of them, for his own works. ¹⁷ He will also take a tenth of your flocks; and you shall be his slaves. ¹⁸ And in that day you will cry aloud, because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves: but the Lord will not hearken to you in those days,

¹⁸ And in that day you will cry aloud, because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves: but the Lord will not hearken to you in those days,

²⁷ But on the morrow, the second day of the moon, when David's seat was vacant, Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why hath not the son of Jessai come to table yesterday and to-day?

³⁰ Upon this Saul was greatly enraged at Jonathan, and said to him, Thou son of the perverse and rebellious! For do I not know that thou art an accomplice of the son of Jessai, to thy own shame, and the confusion of thy mother? ³¹ For as long as the son of Jessai liveth, thy kingdom will not be established. Now therefore send and seize that young man, for he shall surely die.

⁷ Saul said to his servants who attended him, Hearken, I pray you, ye sons of Benjamin! Can the son of Jessai really give every one of you fields, and vineyards, and make you all captains of hundreds, and captains of thousands,

⁹ Then Doek the Syrian, who had the care of Saul's asses, answered and said, I saw the son of Jessai coming to Nomba, to Abimelech the son of Achitob, the priest;

¹³ Then Saul said to him, Why hast thou conspired against me, thou and the son of Jessai, that thou shouldst give him bread, and a sword, and consult God for him to make him my enemy, as is now the case?

¹⁰ Upon which Nabal started up, and in reply said to David's young men, Who is David? and who is the son of Jessai? There are now a days many slaves who run away every one from his master; ¹¹ and shall I take my bread, and my wine, and the flesh I have killed for my sheep shearers, and give them to men whom I know not whence they be?

¹⁵ but I will not withdraw my mercy from him as I withdrew it from them whom I removed from my presence. ¹⁶ His house and his kingdom shall be established for ever before me and his throne shall be raised up again for ever.

² And Abessalom rose early in the morning, and took his stand at the place where the road turned off to the gate. And when any man who had a controversy came to the king for judgment, Abessalom called to him, and said, Of what city art thou? And when he said, Thy servant is of such a one of the tribes of Israel, ³ Abessalom said to him, Behold thy cause is good, and easily determined, but there is none appointed by the king to hear thee. ⁴ Then would Abessalom say, that they would make me a judge in the land! In that case if any man had a defence to make, or a suit to prosecute, and would come to me, I would do him justice. ⁵ And when any man came to make obeisance to him, he stretched forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him. ⁶ In this manner Abessalom acted to all Israel who were coming to the king for judgment, so that Abessalom won the hearts of the men of Israel.

¹³ And there came a messenger to David, saying, The heart of the men of Israel is gone after Abessalom.

¹¹ Then David said to Abessa, and to all his servants, Behold my own son, who is descended from my loins, seeketh my life, and how much more then may this Jeminite do it! Let him curse, for the Lord hath bidden him.

²⁰ Then Abessalom said to Achitophel, Consult among yourselves what we shall do.

⁵ yet Abessalom said, Call, I pray you, Chousi the Arachite, and let us hear also what he saith. ⁶ And when Chousi came to Abessalom, Abessalom spoke to him saying, In this manner Achitophel has spoken; shall we do as he adviseth? If not, speak thou. ⁷ Upon this Chousi said to Abessalom, The counsel which Achitophel hath given, is, for this once, not good. ⁸ Thou thyself, said Chousi, knowest thy father and his men, that they are very brave, and chafed in their minds like a bear bereaved of her whelps in the fields; or like a wild boar in the plain. And thy father is a man of war, and will not let the people rest. ⁹ For behold he is now hid in one of the mountains, or in some secure place, and it shall be that when he shall sally out on them at the first, every one who heareth will say, There hath been a slaughter among them who follow Abessalom: ¹⁰ in which case the son of valour himself, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will assuredly be dismayed. For all Israel know that thy father is a mighty man, and that they who are with him are sons of valour. ¹¹ This therefore is the counsel which I would give; Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, like the sand which is on the sea shore for multitude; and let thy presence go forth in the midst of them. ¹² And when we shall come upon him in one of the places where we may find him, we will encamp around him as the dew falleth on the ground. And we will not leave with him or the men who are with him so much as one man. ¹³ And if he be shut up in any city, all Israel will take ropes to that city, and we will drag it into the ditch, so that there shall not be left so much as a stone. ¹⁴ And Abessalom, and all Israel, said, The counsel of Chousi the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel. For the Lord had determined to defeat the counsel of Achitophel, which was good, that the Lord might bring upon Abessalom all the consequent evils.

¹ men of Israel; and there happened to be there a turbulent man whose name was Sabee, son of Bochori, the chief of the Jeminites, and he sounded a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jessai. Every man to his tent, Israel.

¹ Now when king Solomon reigned over Israel

⁶ and Achisar was steward; and Eliak high steward; and Eliab son of Saph was over the household; and Adoniram son of Audon was over the tribute.

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¹⁴ These he sent to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns, so that they were one month at Libanus, and two at home. And Adoniram was over this levy. ¹⁵ And Solomon had seventy thousand men who carried burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone, in the mountains,

²² [Omitted]

¹³ but I will not take the whole kingdom, I will give thy son one tribe for David my servant's sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.

²⁶ With regard to Jeroboam son of Nabat, the Ephrathite of Sarira, a widow's son, a servant of Solomon, this was the cause why he lifted up his hand against king Solomon.

²⁸ this man Jeroboam was mighty in power, and Solomon seeing that the youth was a man of business set him over the burdens of the house of Joseph. ²⁹ And it happened that one time when Jeroboam went out to Jerusalem, Achia the Selonite the prophet met him on the road and took him aside out of the way. Now Achia was clad with a new mantle; and when they were both alone in the fields, ³⁰ Achia took the new mantle which he had on and rent it into twelve pieces, ³¹ and said to Jeroboam, Take for thyself ten pieces. For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and give thee ten tribes. ³² But he shall have two tribes for David, my servant's sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. ³³ Because he hath forsaken me and sacrificed to Astarte, the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos and the idols of Moab, and to their king the horror of the Ammonites, and hath not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight like his father David; ³⁴ though by raising up enemies against him as I certainly shall do all the days of his life, I will not take out of his hand the kingdom, which shall continue to him entire, for the sake of my servant David whom I chose; ³⁵ yet I will take it out of the hands of his son and give thee ten tribes. ³⁶ And to his son I will give two tribes, that my servant David, may have a standing continually before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

³⁶ And to his son I will give two tribes, that my servant David, may have a standing continually before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there. ³⁷ And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel. ³⁸ And if thou wilt keep all that I will give thee in charge and walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my statutes, and my commandments, as my servant David did, I will be with thee, and I will build for thee a sure house, as I did for David. ³⁹ [Omitted] So ⁴⁰ when Solomon sought to put Jeroboam to death, he arose and fled to Egypt to Susakim king of Egypt, and continued in Egypt till the death of Solomon.

¹ And king Roboam went to Sikima because all Israel had come there, to make him king.

³ And the people spoke to king Roboam, saying,

³ And the people spoke to king Roboam, saying, ⁴ Thy father made our yoke heavy, now therefore lighten thou the hard service of thy father and his grievous yoke which he imposed on us and we will serve thee.

⁴ Thy father made our yoke heavy, now therefore lighten thou the hard service of thy father and his grievous yoke which he imposed on us and we will serve thee. ⁵ Whereupon he said to them, Go away for three days and come to me again. So they went away.

⁵ Whereupon he said to them, Go away for three days and come to me again. So they went away. ⁶ And the king laid the matter before the elders who stood before Solomon his father while he was alive, and said, How do you advise me to answer this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him saying, If thou wilt this day be a servant to the people and serve them and speak good words to them, they will then be thy servants, all thy days.

⁷ And they spoke to him saying, If thou wilt this day be a servant to the people and serve them and speak good words to them, they will then be thy servants, all thy days. ⁸ But he slighted the counsel of the old men, which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who had been brought up with him, and who waited on him, ⁹ and said to them, What do you advise? And what answer should I make to them who speak to me saying, Lighten the yoke which thy father laid on us? ¹⁰ And the young men who had been brought up with him, and waited on him spoke to him and said, Thus shalt thou say to this people, who have spoken to thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, now therefore, lighten it for us, thus thou shalt say to them, My little finger shall be heavier than my father's loins. My father indeed loaded you with a heavy yoke; but I will add to your yoke.

¹⁰ And the young men who had been brought up with him, and waited on him spoke to him and said, Thus shalt thou say to this people, who have spoken to thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, now therefore, lighten it for us, thus thou shalt say to them, My little finger shall be heavier than my father's loins. My father indeed loaded you with a heavy yoke; but I will add to your yoke. ¹¹ My father chastised you with whips; but I will chastise you with scorpions.

¹¹ My father chastised you with whips; but I will chastise you with scorpions. ¹² So when all the people came to the king on the third day as he had appointed, saying, Come to me again on the third day,

¹² So when all the people came to the king on the third day as he had appointed, saying, Come to me again on the third day, ¹³ the king answered the people roughly. He slighted the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,

¹³ the king answered the people roughly. He slighted the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, ¹⁴ and spoke to them, in the manner the young men advised, saying, My father made your yoke heavy but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

¹⁴ and spoke to them, in the manner the young men advised, saying, My father made your yoke heavy but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. ¹⁵ So the king hearkened not to the people. Because the revolution was from the Lord, that he might perform the word which he spoke, by the ministry of Achia the Selonite, concerning Jeroboam, son of Nabat,

¹⁵ So the king hearkened not to the people. Because the revolution was from the Lord, that he might perform the word which he spoke, by the ministry of Achia the Selonite, concerning Jeroboam, son of Nabat,

¹⁵ So the king hearkened not to the people. Because the revolution was from the Lord, that he might perform the word which he spoke, by the ministry of Achia the Selonite, concerning Jeroboam, son of Nabat, ¹⁶ therefore when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them, they answered the king and said, What portion have we in David? We indeed have no inheritance in the son of Jessai. To thy tents, Israel! Now David, feed thy own house. So Israel departed to their habitations.

¹⁶ therefore when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them, they answered the king and said, What portion have we in David? We indeed have no inheritance in the son of Jessai. To thy tents, Israel! Now David, feed thy own house. So Israel departed to their habitations. ¹⁷ [Omitted]

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¹⁷ [Omitted] ¹⁸ And when the king sent out Adoniram, who was over the tribute, they stoned him with stones, so that he died. Upon which Roboam hasted to mount his chariot and flee to Jerusalem. ¹⁹ So Israel renounced all allegiance to the house of David to this day. ²⁰ Now when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned from Egypt they had sent and invited him to the assembly, and they made him king over Israel, so that there was none who followed the house of David but only the tribes of Juda and Benjamin.

²⁴ Thus saith the Lord, You shall not go up, nor fight with your brethren the children of Israel. Return every one to his house. For this thing is from me. So they hearkened to the word of the Lord and desisted from going, as the Lord commanded them. When king Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, Roboam his son reigned in his stead. He was sixteen years old when he began to reign and he reigned twelve years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Naama a daughter of Ana son of Naas king of the Ammonites. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord and did not walk in the way of his grand father David. Now there was a man of Mount Ephraim, a servant of Solomon, whose name was Jeroboam and his mother's name was Sarira. She was a harlot. And Solomon had made him overseer of the burdens of the house of Joseph, and he had built Sarira on Mount Ephraim. And he had three hundred chariots of horses. He had built the citadel with the burdens of the house of Ephraim, and enclosed the city of David, and was aspiring to the kingdom. Upon which Solomon sought to put him to death, and he was terrified and fled to Sousakim king of Egypt, and was with him till Solomon died. And when Jeroboam heard in Egypt that Solomon was dead, he addressed Sousakim king of Egypt and said, Send me away, that I may go to my own land. Whereupon Sousakim said, Ask what thou wilt and I will give it thee. For Sousakim had given Jeroboam for a wife Ano an elder sister of his own wife Thekamina. She was great among the king's daughters and had born to Jeroboam his son Abia. And Jeroboam said to Sousakim, Only send me away and let me go. So Jeroboam left Egypt and came to the land of Sarira which is on Mount Ephraim. And thither all the tribe of Ephraim assembled and there Jeroboam built a fortress.

⁶ Therefore about this time to-morrow I will send my servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants, and take all that are desirable in their eyes, upon which they can lay their hands. ⁷ Upon this the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Mark, I pray you and see how this man seeketh mischief. For he hath sent to me for my wives and for my children, even for my daughters. My gold and my silver I did not withhold from him. ⁸ Then the elders and all the people said to him, Thou must not hearken nor consent. ⁹ Thereupon he said to the messengers of Son Ader, Tell my lord, All that thou didst send to thy servant at first I will do; but this I cannot do. So the men went away; and when they carried him back this answer, ¹⁰ Son Ader sent to him saying, God do so to me and more also, if I do not make Samaria a jakes for all the people of my infantry. ¹¹ In reply to which the king of Israel said, Enough! let not him who is crooked boast like him who is straight.

⁶ Whereupon the king of Israel assembled all the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go up to Remmath Galaad to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord will certainly deliver into the king's hands. ⁷ And Josaphat said to the king of Israel, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord that we may inquire of the Lord by him? ⁸ And the king of Israel said to Josaphat, There is a certain man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him; for he never speaketh good of me; but evil; one Michaias, son of Jemblaa. And Josaphat king of Juda said, Let not the king speak so.

²⁰ And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achab king of Israel that he may go up and fall at Remmath Galaad? And when one spoke in this manner and another in that,

²¹ Because Israel, besides revolting from the house of David, made Jeroboam son of Nabat king; therefore Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and caused them to commit a great sin; ²² and the Israelites proceeded on in the sin of Jeroboam which he had caused them to commit; and departed not from it, ²³ until the Lord removed them from his presence, as he spoke by the ministry of all his servants the prophets. Now when Israel was removed from their own land to Assyria, where they continue to this day;

¹⁰ The sons of Solomon Roboam; Abia his son, Asa his son, Josaphat his son,

³⁸ All these warriors were arrayed for battle, with a peaceable intention. They came to Chebron to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of Israel were of one mind that David should be king.

¹⁴ but will confirm him in my house and in his kingdom, and his throne shall be established forever.

⁹ Now the staves projected, and their heads were seen from the Holies towards the front of the dabir, but were not seen from without, and there they have continued to this day.

²⁹ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, behold they are written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Achia the Selonite, and in the visions of Joel the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nabat.

⁵ Thereupon he said to them, Go away for three days and then come to me. And when the people were gone, ⁶ king Roboam assembled the elders who had stood before his father Solomon in his life time, and said to them, How do you advise me to answer this people?

⁸ But he slighted the counsel which the elders gave him, and consulted the young men, who had been brought up with him, and who waited on him,

¹⁰ And the young men, who had been brought up with him, spoke to him saying, Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who hath spoken to thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou therefore lighten it for us; thus thou shalt say, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. ¹¹ Now therefore my father chastened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips; but I will chastise you with scorpions.

¹⁶ for the king hath not hearkened to them, the people answered the king, and said, What portion have we in David? And what inheritance in the son of Jessai? To your tents Israel! Now David, look thou to thine own house. So Israel went away to their habitations;

¹⁹ and Israel revolted from the house of David to this day.

¹ Now when Roboam came to Jerusalem and had assembled of Juda and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of the young men who were warriors, and was going to war with Israel, to restore the kingdom to Roboam;

⁵ Ought you not to know that the Lord God, the God of Israel, gave the office of king over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt? ⁶ Yet Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and fled from his lord, ⁷ and there were gathered to him wicked factious men, so that he rose up against Roboam the son of Solomon, when he was young and faint hearted and unable to withstand him;

⁴ therefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Achab. For after the death of his father, they were his counsellors to his destruction, ⁵ and he walked by their advice, and went with Joram the son of Achab, king of Israel, to war against Azael, king of Syria, at Ramoth Galaad. And when the archers had smitten Joram,

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

¹⁵ therefore the wrath of the Lord was against Amasias, and he sent a prophet to him and said to him, Why hast thou sought the gods of this people, which could not deliver their own people out of thy hand? ¹⁶ But while the prophet was speaking to him lie said to him, Have I made thee a counsellor of the king? Forbear, lest thou be scourged. Thereupon the prophet held his peace, for I know, said he, that he hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

¹⁶ But while the prophet was speaking to him lie said to him, Have I made thee a counsellor of the king? Forbear, lest thou be scourged. Thereupon the prophet held his peace, for I know, said he, that he hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel. ¹⁷ Then Amasias king of Juda took counsel and sent to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come and let us look each other in the face. ¹⁸ Upon which Joas king of Israel sent to Amasias king of Juda saying, The thistle on Libanus sent to the cedar on Libanus saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife. But lo! the wild beasts on Libanus will come; nay the wild beasts on Libanus did come and trample down the thistle. ¹⁹ Thou hast said, Behold I have smitten Idumea, therefore thy stupid heart lifteth thee up. Abide now at home: why dost thou take counsel to thy hurt, that thou mayest fall and Juda with thee? ²⁰ But Amasias would not hearken, for the Lord had determined to deliver him up, because he sought the gods of the Idumeans.

⁷ From the days of our fathers we are in great transgression, even to this day. And for our inquities, we and our kings and our children, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the nations, to the sword and to captivity, and to spoiling, and to confusion of face, as at this day.

⁸ For inquire of the former generation; and search diligently among the race of fathers; ⁹ [for we are but of yesterday and know nothing; for our life on the earth is but a shadow]

¹² By length of time wisdom is acquired, and by long life, experience. ¹³ With him is wisdom and power; with him counsel and understanding.

⁷ For I said, Is it not age which speaketh? And by many years they have gained wisdom.

¹ Why did nations rage? And tribes meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth combined; and the chiefs assembled together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, [saying] ³ "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke." ⁴ He who dwelleth in heaven will laugh them to scorn; the Lord will treat them with derision. ⁵ Then will he speak to them in his wrath and trouble them with his sore displeasure. ⁶ But as for me, by him I am appointed king on Sion his holy mountain.

¹⁰ Since the secret purpose of man can contribute to thy praise, let the remainder of it cause a festival to be celebrated for thee.

²⁹ And I will establish his seed forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and do not walk in my judgments;

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and do not walk in my judgments; ³¹ If they profane my statutes; and do not keep my commandments: ³² I will visit their transgressions with a rod; and their iniquities with scourges. ³³ But from him I will not withdraw my mercy; nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. ³⁴ I will not violate my covenant; nor annul what have passed my lips. ³⁵ Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; that I will not be false to David. ³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me; ³⁷ and as the moon forever fixed: and the witness in heaven is faithful."

¹⁷ I will cause a horn for David to spring up there; I have prepared a lamp for mine anointed.

²⁵ but set at naught my counsels and disregarded my reproofs:

²⁸ Do not say, Go away and come again: tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it in thy power to do good: for thou knowest not what to-morrow will bring forth.

⁹ Give a wise man a hint and he will be wiser; an intimation to a righteous man and he will proceed to take it.

¹⁴ Wise men will lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the rash is near destruction.

⁵ The thoughts of the righteous are judgments: but the wicked manage deceits.

¹⁵ The ways of fools are right in their own eyes: but a wise man hearkeneth to advice.

¹⁶ Every prudent man acteth with knowledge; but the fool hath laid open his wickedness.

²⁰ By walking with the wise thou wilt be wise; but he who walketh with fools will be known.

¹⁶ A wise man, when terrified, declineth from evil: but the fool, confident in himself, mixeth with transgressors.

¹ Wrath destroyeth even the prudent; now a soft answer turneth away wrath; but a harsh word stirreth up anger.

¹⁴ A righteous government giveth force to words: but sedition and quarrelling are the forerunners of want.

⁶ The lips of a fool lead him into trouble; and his mouth when bold provoketh death. ⁷ The mouth of a fool is his destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soul.

²⁰ Hear my son, the instruction of thy father that thou mayst be wise in thy latter days.

²⁷ A son who ceaseth to keep the instruction of a father; will meditate on evil sayings.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no fortitude, no counsel in the wicked.

¹² A precious sardius is bound to an ear-ring of gold; and a word of wisdom to an obedient ear.

¹⁰ Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not; but when unfortunate go not to the house of thy brother. Better is a friend near at hand, than a brother far off.

²⁵ A faithless man judgeth rashly: but he who trusteth in the Lord will be careful.

²³ A man's pride will bring him low: but the Lord will gloriously support the humble.

¹⁹ and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Now if he hath power over all my labour for which I have toiled and in which I have displayed wisdom under the sun; surely this is vanity.

⁸ Better is a patient man than one of a haughty spirit.

² The heart of a wise man is on his right: but the heart of a fool is at his left. ³ In every way at least when a fool is on his march his heart will fail him so that all which he shall devise is folly.

¹⁶ Alas for thee, city, whose king is a novice and whose chiefs eat in the morning.

⁶ because for us a child is born, and to us a son is given, whose government is on his own shoulder; and his name is called, "The Messenger of Great Counsel." For I will bring peace on the rulers and health for him. ⁷ His government shall be great and to his peace there is no boundary, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to reestablish it, and support it with judgment and justice, henceforth and forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

¹ And there shall spring up a shoot from the root of Jessai; even from that root shall spring up a blooming shoot;

¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell thee publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe. ¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting.

¹ "AH rebellious children! saith the Lord, you have formed a design, but not by me: and thou hast made convenants, but not by my spirit, that you may add sins to sins.

¹² Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, because you have disbelieved these words and placed your hopes on a lie: and because thou hast murmured, and been confident in this matter; ¹³ therefore this sin shall be to you like the tottering wall of a fortified city, which hath been taken by surprise; the fall of which is instantaneous.

⁶ I was angry with my people: thou didst pollute my heritage, I delivered them into thy hand: and thou didst shew them no mercy. The yoke of the aged thou madest very heavy,

⁶ It is not such a fast as this that I have chosen, saith the Lord. But loose every bond of iniquity; dissolve the obligations of onerous contracts; set at liberty them who are oppressed, and tear in pieces every unjust stipulation in writing:

¹³ "Go and speak to Ananias and say, Thus said the Lord, Thou hast broken wooden yokes; but instead of them I will make yokes of iron. ¹⁴ For thus said the Lord, I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all the nations, that they may work for the king of Babylon."

² came to Jeremias the prophet and said to him, Have compassion on us, we beseech thee and pray to the Lord thy God for this remnant; for we are left only few of many as thine eyes see. ³ Now let the Lord thy God point out to us the way which we should go and what we are to do. ⁴ Whereupon Jeremias said to them, I have heard. Behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God according to your words and whatever answer the Lord our God shall give that I will declare to you. I will not hide anything from you. ⁵ And they said to Jeremias, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, that we will act conformably to the word, whatever it be, which the Lord shall send to us.

²⁰ For now you must be sensible that you did evil in your hearts when you sent me saying, Pray for us to the Lord, and we will act conformably to all that the Lord shall say to thee.

²⁴ And my servant David shall be chief among them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and practise them, ²⁵ therefore they shall dwell in that land of theirs which I gave to my servant Jacob. Where their fathers dwelt there they shall dwell and my servant David shall be the only chief forever.

⁷ All that are over thy kingdom, the generals and governors, the chief commanders and toparchs have joined in opinion to establish by a royal statute and make a firm decree, that whoever shall make any request of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee only, king; he shall be cast into the den of the lions.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David which hath fallen; I will rebuild those parts of it which have fallen to decay, and repair what have been demolished. I will indeed rebuild it as in the days of old,

⁷ and Solomon begat Roboam, and Roboam begat Abia, and Abia begat Asa,

²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

⁴ For they bind up heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

³² He will be great and will be called the son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. ³³ And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

¹⁹ behold I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise hurt you.

¹⁴ Now his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this man to reign over us.

²⁷ And as for those enemies of mine who would not have me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.

⁶⁶ From this time many of his disciples withdrew and walked no more with him,

³⁷ Now though he had performed so many miracles before them, they did not believe in him, ³⁸ so that the word of the prophet Esaias was confirmed, which he spoke, Lord who hath believed our report, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ It was because they were not enabled to believe that in another place Esaias said,

²⁴ they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, so that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, "They parted my garments among them; and for my vesture they cast lots." These things the soldiers actually did.

³² The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and also of the other who had been crucified with him. ³³ But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers with his spear pierced his side, and blood and water issued forth immediately. ³⁵ Now he who was an eye witness hath testified this. And his testimony is true, and [Jesus] himself knoweth that he speaketh the truth that you may believe. ³⁶ For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken."

²³ Him, being surrendered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken; and by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

³⁰ Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that from the fruit of his loins he would, as far as regardeth the flesh, raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

²⁸ to do what thy hand and thy council had determinately marked out beforehand to be brought to pass.

⁵⁷ At which they screamed aloud, and stopped their ears and rushed upon him with one accord. ⁵⁸ And having driven him out of the city they stoned him. And the witnesses laid their mantles at the feet of a young man named Saul,

²⁵ For he must reign until he hath put all the enemies under his feet.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

³ for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments. Now his commandments are not grievous,

³ And out of the smoke there came forth locusts on the earth; and to them a power was given, as the scorpions of the earth have power;

⁵ and they were enjoined not to kill these, but to torture them five months. And their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stingeth a man.

¹⁰ and they have tails like scorpions and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months;

¹⁶ I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David; the bright and the morning star.

⁵³ Then every one went to his own home.