The One Year Bible KJV (164 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
51
 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers
did,
so
do
ye.
52
 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53
 who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept
it.
54
 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with
their
teeth.
55
 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56
 and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57
 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58
 and cast
him
out of the city, and stoned
him:
and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
59
 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon
God,
and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60
 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
8:
1
 And Saul was consenting unto his death.
And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
2
 And devout men carried Stephen
to his burial,
and made great lamentation over him.
3
 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed
them
to prison.
4
 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
5
 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
6
 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
7
 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed
with them:
and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
8
 And there was great joy in that city.
9
 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
10
 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
11
 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
12
 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
13
 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
A Song of degrees.
1
 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2
 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3
 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4
 The L
ORD
is
righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5
 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6
 Let them be as the grass
upon
the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7
 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8
 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the L
ORD
be
upon you: we bless you in the name of the L
ORD
.
1
 Better
is
a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices
with
strife.
1
 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the L
ORD
, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
2
 that the L
ORD
appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
3
 And the L
ORD
said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
4
 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee,
and
wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
5
 then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
6
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But
if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments
and
my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7
 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8
 and at this house,
which
is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the L
ORD
done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9
 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the L
ORD
their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the L
ORD
brought upon them all this evil.
10
 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the L
ORD
, and the king's house,
11
 (
now
Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12
 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
13
 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.
14
 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15
 And this
is
the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the L
ORD
, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16
Â
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.
17
 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
18
 and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19
 and all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20
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And
all the people
that were
left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which
were
not of the children of Israel,
21
 their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
22
 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they
were
men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23
 These
were
the chief of the officers that
were
over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
24
 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which
Solomon
had built for her: then did he build Millo.
25
 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the L
ORD
, and he burnt incense upon the altar that
was
before the L
ORD
. So he finished the house.
26
 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which
is
beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
27
 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
28
 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought
it
to king Solomon.
10:
1
 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the L
ORD
, she came to prove him with hard questions.
2
 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
3
 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not
any
thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
4
 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
5
 and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the L
ORD
; there was no more spirit in her.
6
 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
7
 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen
it:
and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
8
 Happy
are
thy men, happy
are
these thy servants, which stand continually before thee,
and
that hear thy wisdom.
9
 Blessed be the L
ORD
thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the L
ORD
loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
10
 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
11
 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
12
 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the L
ORD
, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
13
 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside
that
which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14
 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
15
 beside
that he had
of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
16
 And king Solomon made two hundred targets
of
beaten gold: six hundred
shekels
of gold went to one target.
17
 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.
18
 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
19
 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne
was
round behind: and
there were
stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
20
 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
21
 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels
were of
gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon
were of
pure gold; none
were of
silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
22
 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
23
 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
24
 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25
 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
26
 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
27
 And the king made silver
to be
in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he
to be
as the sycamore trees that
are
in the vale, for abundance.
28
 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
29
 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
shekels
of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring
them
out by their means.