The One Year Bible KJV (186 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
37
 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee?
Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
38
 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
39
 But Paul said, I am a man
which am
a Jew of Tarsus,
a city
in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
40
 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto
them
in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
22:
1
 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence
which I make
now unto you.
2
 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
3
 I am verily a man
which am
a Jew, born in Tarsus,
a city
in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel,
and
taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
4
 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
5
 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
6
 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
7
 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me,
Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
8
 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me,
I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
9
 And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
10
 And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me,
Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.
11
 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
12
 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt
there,
13
 came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
14
 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
15
 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
16
 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
1
 Blessed
is
the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2
 But his delight
is
in the law of the L
ORD
; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3
 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4
 The ungodly
are
not so: but
are
like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5
 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6
 For the L
ORD
knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
11
 The rich man's wealth
is
his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
12
 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour
is
humility.
31
 Jehoahaz
was
twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was
Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32
 And he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, according to all that his fathers had done.
33
 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34
 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35
 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give
it
unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
36
 Jehoiakim
was
twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was
Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37
 And he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, according to all that his fathers had done.
24:
1
 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2
 And the L
ORD
sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the L
ORD
, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3
 Surely at the commandment of the L
ORD
came
this
upon Judah, to remove
them
out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
4
 and also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the L
ORD
would not pardon.
5
 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
6
 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
7
 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
8
 Jehoiachin
was
eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name
was
Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9
 And he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, according to all that his father had done.
10
 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11
 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12
 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13
 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the L
ORD
, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the L
ORD
, as the L
ORD
had said.
14
 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour,
even
ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
15
 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land,
those
carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16
 And all the men of might,
even
seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all
that were
strong
and
apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
17
 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18
 Zedekiah
was
twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was
Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19
 And he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
20
 For through the anger of the L
ORD
it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
25:
1
 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth
day
of the month,
that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it: and they built forts against it round about.
2
 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3
 And on the ninth
day
of the
fourth
month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4
 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war
fled
by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which
is
by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees
were
against the city round about:) and
the king
went the way toward the plain.
5
 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
6
 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
7
 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8
 And in the fifth month, on the seventh
day
of the month, which
is
the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9
 and he burnt the house of the L
ORD
, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great
man's
house burnt he with fire.
10
 And all the army of the Chaldees, that
were with
the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11
 Now the rest of the people
that were
left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.
12
 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
to be
vinedressers and husbandmen.
13
 And the pillars of brass that
were
in the house of the L
ORD
, and the bases, and the brasen sea that
was
in the house of the L
ORD
, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14
 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15
 And the firepans, and the bowls,
and
such things as
were
of gold,
in
gold, and of silver,
in
silver, the captain of the guard took away.
16
 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the L
ORD
; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17
 The height of the one pillar
was
eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it
was
brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
18
 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
19
 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land
that were
found in the city:
20
 and Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
21
 and the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
22
 And
as for
the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
23
 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
24
 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25
 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
26
 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
27
 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth
day
of the month,
that
Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
28
 and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that
were
with him in Babylon;
29
 and changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
30
 And his allowance
was
a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
