The One Year Bible KJV (197 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
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 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2
 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3
 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4
 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5
 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6
 who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7
 to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8
 but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9
 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10
 but glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11
 for there is no respect of persons with God.
12
 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13
 (for not the hearers of the law
are
just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14
 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15
 which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and
their
thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16
 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17
 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18
 and knowest
his
will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19
 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20
 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21
 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22
 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
23
 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24
 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
16
 The L
ORD
is
King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17
 L
ORD
, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18
 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
8
 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
9
 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and
he that
speaketh lies shall perish.
1
 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
2
 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
3
 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
4
 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
5
 Then there went
certain,
and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and
then
return.
6
 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.
7
 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
8
 And when David heard
of it,
he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
9
 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come
were
by themselves in the field.
10
 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put
them
in array against the Syrians.
11
 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set
themselves
in array against the children of Ammon.
12
 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
13
 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the L
ORD
do
that which is
good in his sight.
14
 So Joab and the people that
were
with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
15
 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
16
 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that
were
beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer
went
before them.
17
 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set
the battle
in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
18
 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand
men which fought in
chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
19
 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
20:
1
 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out
to battle,
Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
2
 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and
there were
precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.
3
 And he brought out the people that
were
in it, and cut
them
with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
4
 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai,
that was
of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
5
 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff
was
like a weaver's beam.
6
 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of
great
stature, whose fingers and toes
were
four and twenty, six
on each hand,
and six
on each foot:
and he also was the son of the giant.
7
 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
8
 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
21:
1
 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
2
 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know
it.
3
 And Joab answered, The L
ORD
make his people an hundred times so many more as they
be:
but, my lord the king,
are
they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
4
 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5
 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all
they of
Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah
was
four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
6
 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
7
 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
8
 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
9
 And the L
ORD
spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
10
 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the L
ORD
, I offer thee three
things:
choose thee one of them, that I may do
it
unto thee.
11
 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the L
ORD
, Choose thee
12
 either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh
thee;
or else three days the sword of the L
ORD
, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the L
ORD
destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
13
 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the L
ORD
; for very great
are
his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
14
 So the L
ORD
sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
15
 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the L
ORD
beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the L
ORD
stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16
 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the L
ORD
stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders
of Israel, who were
clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17
 And David said unto God,
Is it
not I
that
commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but
as for
these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O L
ORD
my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
18
 Then the angel of the L
ORD
commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the L
ORD
in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19
 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the L
ORD
.
20
 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21
 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with
his
face to the ground.
22
 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of
this
threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the L
ORD
: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23
 And Ornan said unto David, Take
it
to thee, and let my lord the king do
that which is
good in his eyes: lo, I give
thee
the oxen
also
for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
24
 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take
that
which
is
thine for the L
ORD
, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
25
 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26
 And David built there an altar unto the L
ORD
, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the L
ORD
; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
27
 And the L
ORD
commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28
 At that time when David saw that the L
ORD
had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29
 For the tabernacle of the L
ORD
, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering,
were
at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
30
 But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the L
ORD
.