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Authors: Tyndale
13
 For I [Paul] speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14
 if by any means I may provoke to emulation
them which are
my flesh, and might save some of them.
15
 For if the casting away of them
be
the reconciling of the world, what
shall
the receiving
of them be,
but life from the dead?
16
 For if the firstfruit
be
holy, the lump
is
also
holy:
and if the root
be
holy, so
are
the branches.
17
 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18
 boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19
 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20
 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21
 for if God spared not the natural branches,
take heed
lest he also spare not thee.
22
 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in
his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23
 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24
 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
branches,
be graffed into their own olive tree?
25
 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26
 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27
 for this
is
my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28
 As concerning the gospel,
they are
enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election,
they are
beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29
 For the gifts and calling of God
are
without repentance.
30
 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31
 even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32
 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33
 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable
are
his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34
 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
35
 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36
 For of him, and through him, and to him,
are
all things: to whom
be
glory for ever. Amen.
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.
1
 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so
far from helping me,
and from
the words of my roaring?
2
 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3
 But thou
art
holy,
O thou
that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4
 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5
 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6
 But I
am
a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7
 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,
saying,
8
 He trusted on the L
ORD
that
he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9
 But thou
art
he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope
when I was
upon my mother's breasts.
10
 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou
art
my God from my mother's belly.
11
 Be not far from me; for trouble
is
near; for
there is
none to help.
12
 Many bulls have compassed me: strong
bulls
of Bashan have beset me round.
13
 They gaped upon me
with
their mouths,
as
a ravening and a roaring lion.
14
 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15
 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16
 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17
 I may tell all my bones: they look
and
stare upon me.
18
 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
7
 The just
man
walketh in his integrity: his children
are
blessed after him.
1
 Joash
was
seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
was
Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2
 And Joash did
that which was
right in the sight of the L
ORD
all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
3
 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
4
 And it came to pass after this,
that
Joash was minded to repair the house of the L
ORD
.
5
 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened
it
not.
6
 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection,
according to the commandment
of Moses the servant of the L
ORD
, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
7
 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the L
ORD
did they bestow upon Baalim.
8
 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the L
ORD
.
9
 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the L
ORD
the collection
that
Moses the servant of God
laid
upon Israel in the wilderness.
10
 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
11
 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that
there was
much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
12
 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the L
ORD
, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the L
ORD
, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the L
ORD
.
13
 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
14
 And when they had finished
it,
they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the L
ORD
,
even
vessels to minister, and to offer
withal,
and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the L
ORD
continually all the days of Jehoiada.
15
 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old
was he
when he died.
16
 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
17
 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
18
 And they left the house of the L
ORD
God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
19
 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the L
ORD
; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
20
 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the L
ORD
, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the L
ORD
, he hath also forsaken you.
21
 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the L
ORD
.
22
 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The L
ORD
look upon
it,
and require
it.
23
 And it came to pass at the end of the year,
that
the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
24
 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the L
ORD
delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the L
ORD
God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
25
 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26
 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
27
 Now
concerning
his sons, and the greatness of the burdens
laid
upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they
are
written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
25:
1
 Amaziah
was
twenty and five years old
when
he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2
 And he did
that which was
right in the sight of the L
ORD
, but not with a perfect heart.
3
 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
4
 But he slew not their children, but
did
as
it is
written in the law in the book of Moses, where the L
ORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
5
 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of
their
fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice
men, able
to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
6
 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
7
 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the L
ORD
is
not with Israel,
to wit, with
all the children of Ephraim.
8
 But if thou wilt go, do
it,
be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
9
 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?
And the man of God answered, The L
ORD
is able to give thee much more than this.
10
 Then Amaziah separated them,
to wit,
the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
11
 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12
 And
other
ten thousand
left
alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
13
 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
14
 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up
to be
his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
15
 Wherefore the anger of the L
ORD
was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
16
 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that
the king
said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten?
Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
17
 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
18
 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that
was
in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
was
in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that
was
in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
19
 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to
thine
hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
even
thou, and Judah with thee?
20
 But Amaziah would not hear; for it
came
of God, that he might deliver them into the hand
of their enemies,
because they sought after the gods of Edom.
21
 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face,
both
he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which
belongeth
to Judah.
22
 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
23
 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
24
 And
he took
all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25
 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
26
 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
are
they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27
 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the L
ORD
they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
28
 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.