The One Year Bible KJV (185 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
18
 And the
day
following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.
19
 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
20
 And when they heard
it,
they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
21
 and they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise
their
children, neither to walk after the customs.
22
 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
23
 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
24
 them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave
their
heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but
that
thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
25
 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written
and
concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from
things
offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
26
 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
27
 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
28
 crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all
men
every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
29
 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
30
 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
31
 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
32
 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
33
 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded
him
to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
34
 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
35
 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
36
 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
1
 Praise ye the L
ORD
. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
2
 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
3
 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4
 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5
 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6
 Let every thing that hath breath praise the L
ORD
. Praise ye the L
ORD
.
9
 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
10
 The name of the L
ORD
is
a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
3
 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
that
the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the L
ORD
, saying,
4
 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the L
ORD
, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
5
 and let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the L
ORD
: and let them give it to the doers of the work which
is
in the house of the L
ORD
, to repair the breaches of the house,
6
 unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
7
 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
8
 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the L
ORD
. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9
 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the L
ORD
.
10
 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
11
 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
12
 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
13
 Go ye, inquire of the L
ORD
for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great
is
the wrath of the L
ORD
that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
14
 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
15
 And she said unto them, Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me.
16
 Thus saith the L
ORD
, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof,
even
all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
17
 because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
18
 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the L
ORD
, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel,
As touching
the words which thou hast heard;
19
 because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the L
ORD
, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
thee,
saith the L
ORD
.
20
 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
23:
1
 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2
 And the king went up into the house of the L
ORD
, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the L
ORD
.
3
 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the L
ORD
, to walk after the L
ORD
, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all
their
heart and all
their
soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4
 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the L
ORD
all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
5
 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6
 And he brought out the grove from the house of the L
ORD
, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped
it
small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7
 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
were
by the house of the L
ORD
, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8
 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that
were
in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which
were
on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
9
 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the L
ORD
in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10
 And he defiled Topheth, which
is
in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
11
 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the L
ORD
, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which
was
in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12
 And the altars that
were
on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the L
ORD
, did the king beat down, and brake
them
down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13
 And the high places that
were
before Jerusalem, which
were
on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14
 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15
 Moreover the altar that
was
at Bethel,
and
the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place,
and
stamped
it
small to powder, and burned the grove.
16
 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that
were
there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned
them
upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the L
ORD
which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17
 Then he said, What title
is
that that I see?
And the men of the city told him,
It is
the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
18
 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19
 And all the houses also of the high places that
were
in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke
the L
ORD
to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20
 And he slew all the priests of the high places that
were
there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21
 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the L
ORD
your God, as
it is
written in the book of this covenant.
22
 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23
 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
wherein
this passover was holden to the L
ORD
in Jerusalem.
24
 Moreover the
workers with
familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the L
ORD
.
25
 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the L
ORD
with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there
any
like him.
26
 Notwithstanding the L
ORD
turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
27
 And the L
ORD
said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28
 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29
 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30
 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
