The One Year Bible KJV (214 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
A Psalm of David.
1
 The earth
is
the L
ORD
's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2
 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3
 Who shall ascend into the hill of the L
ORD
? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4
 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5
 He shall receive the blessing from the L
ORD
, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6
 This
is
the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7
 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8
 Who
is
this King of glory? The L
ORD
strong and mighty, the L
ORD
mighty in battle.
9
 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift
them
up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10
 Who is this King of glory? The L
ORD
of hosts, he
is
the King of glory. Selah.
12
 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the L
ORD
hath made even both of them.
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1
 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the L
ORD
at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the L
ORD
God of Israel.
2
 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
3
 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
4
 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
5
 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the L
ORD
God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done
it
of a long
time in such sort
as it was written.
6
 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the L
ORD
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
7
 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the L
ORD
God of their fathers,
who
therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
8
 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers
were, but
yield yourselves unto the L
ORD
, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the L
ORD
your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
9
 For if ye turn again unto the L
ORD
, your brethren and your children
shall find
compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the L
ORD
your God
is
gracious and merciful, and will not turn away
his
face from you, if ye return unto him.
10
 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11
 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
12
 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the L
ORD
.
13
 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
14
 And they arose and took away the altars that
were
in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast
them
into the brook Kidron.
15
 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth
day
of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the L
ORD
.
16
 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood,
which they received
of the hand of the Levites.
17
 For
there were
many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one
that was
not clean, to sanctify
them
unto the L
ORD
.
18
 For a multitude of the people,
even
many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good L
ORD
pardon every one
19
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that
prepareth his heart to seek God, the L
ORD
God of his fathers, though
he be
not
cleansed
according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20
 And the L
ORD
hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
21
 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the L
ORD
day by day,
singing
with loud instruments unto the L
ORD
.
22
 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the L
ORD
: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the L
ORD
God of their fathers.
23
 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept
other
seven days with gladness.
24
 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
25
 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
26
 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel
there was
not the like in Jerusalem.
27
 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came
up
to his holy dwelling place,
even
unto heaven.
31:
1
 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2
 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the L
ORD
.
3
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He appointed
also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings,
to wit,
for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as
it is
written in the law of the L
ORD
.
4
 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the L
ORD
.
5
 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all
things
brought they in abundantly.
6
 And
concerning
the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the L
ORD
their God, and laid
them
by heaps.
7
 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished
them
in the seventh month.
8
 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the L
ORD
, and his people Israel.
9
 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10
 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since
the people
began to bring the offerings into the house of the L
ORD
, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the L
ORD
hath blessed his people; and that which is left
is
this great store.
11
 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the L
ORD
; and they prepared
them,
12
 and brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated
things
faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite
was
ruler, and Shimei his brother
was
the next.
13
 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah,
were
overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
14
 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east,
was
over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the L
ORD
, and the most holy things.
15
 And next him
were
Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in
their
set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
16
 beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward,
even
unto every one that entereth into the house of the L
ORD
, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
17
 both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
18
 and to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
19
 also of the sons of Aaron the priests,
which were
in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
20
 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought
that which was
good and right and truth before the L
ORD
his God.
21
 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did
it
with all his heart, and prospered.