The One Year Bible KJV (134 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2
 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3
 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4
 For
there is
no man
that
doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
5
 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
6
 Then Jesus said unto them,
My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
7
Â
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
8
Â
Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.
9
 When he had said these words unto them, he abode
still
in Galilee.
10
 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11
 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12
 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
13
 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14
 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
15
 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
16
 Jesus answered them, and said,
My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
17
Â
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
whether
I speak of myself.
18
Â
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
19
Â
Did not Moses give you the law, and
yet
none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
20
 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
21
 Jesus answered and said unto them,
I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
22
Â
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
23
Â
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?
24
Â
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
25
 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
26
 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
27
 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
28
 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying,
Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29
Â
But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
30
 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
A Song
or
Psalm of David.
1
 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2
 Awake, psaltery and harp: I
myself
will awake early.
3
 I will praise thee, O L
ORD
, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4
 For thy mercy
is
great above the heavens: and thy truth
reacheth
unto the clouds.
5
 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
6
 That thy beloved may be delivered: save
with
thy right hand, and answer me.
7
 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8
 Gilead
is
mine; Manasseh
is
mine; Ephraim also
is
the strength of mine head; Judah
is
my lawgiver;
9
 Moab
is
my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
10
 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
11
Â
Wilt
not
thou,
O God,
who
hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12
 Give us help from trouble: for vain
is
the help of man.
13
 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he
it is that
shall tread down our enemies.
4
 A wholesome tongue
is
a tree of life: but perverseness therein
is
a breach in the spirit.
1
 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that
is
on the other side. But he told not his father.
2
 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which
is
in Migron: and the people that
were
with him
were
about six hundred men;
3
 and Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the L
ORD
's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
4
 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison,
there was
a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one
was
Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
5
 The forefront of the one
was
situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
6
 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the L
ORD
will work for us: for
there is
no restraint to the L
ORD
to save by many or by few.
7
 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that
is
in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I
am
with thee according to thy heart.
8
 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto
these
men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
9
 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
10
 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the L
ORD
hath delivered them into our hand: and this
shall be
a sign unto us.
11
 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
12
 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing.
And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the L
ORD
hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
13
 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.
14
 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land,
which
a yoke
of oxen might plow.
15
 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
16
 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down
one another.
17
 Then said Saul unto the people that
were
with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer
were
not
there.
18
 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
19
 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that
was
in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
20
 And Saul and all the people that
were
with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow,
and there was
a very great discomfiture.
21
 Moreover the Hebrews
that
were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp
from the country
round about, even they also
turned
to be with the Israelites that
were
with Saul and Jonathan.
22
 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim,
when
they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
23
 So the L
ORD
saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.
24
 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed
be
the man that eateth
any
food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted
any
food.
25
 And all
they of
the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
26
 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
27
 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that
was
in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
28
 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed
be
the man that eateth
any
food this day. And the people were faint.
29
 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
30
 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31
 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
32
 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew
them
on the ground: and the people did eat
them
with the blood.
33
 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the L
ORD
, in that they eat with the blood.
And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
34
 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay
them
here, and eat; and sin not against the L
ORD
in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew
them
there.
35
 And Saul built an altar unto the L
ORD
: the same was the first altar that he built unto the L
ORD
.
36
 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.
And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee.
Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
37
 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
38
 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
39
 For,
as
the L
ORD
liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But
there was
not a man among all the people
that
answered him.
40
 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.
And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
41
 Therefore Saul said unto the L
ORD
God of Israel, Give a perfect
lot.
And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
42
 And Saul said, Cast
lots
between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
43
 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done.
And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that
was
in mine hand,
and,
lo, I must die.
44
 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.
45
 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid:
as
the L
ORD
liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
46
 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
47
 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed
them.
48
 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
49
 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters
were these;
the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
50
 and the name of Saul's wife
was
Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host
was
Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
51
 And Kish
was
the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner
was
the son of Abiel.
52
 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.