In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

Despise not prophesyings.

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.

And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:

And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:

So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

For some are already turned aside after Satan.

Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.

Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:

And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;

And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.

Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.

So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

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.

And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:

Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.

And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,

His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.

Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!

And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;

Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.

And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.

He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.

The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.

Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.

And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,

Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,

And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.

For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it;

Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.

And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.

Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

The sower soweth the word.

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: