The One Year Bible KJV (223 page)
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1
 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
2
 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel,
one
of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
3
 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
4
 Arise; for
this
matter
belongeth
unto thee: we also
will be
with thee: be of good courage, and do
it.
5
 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
6
 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and
when
he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
7
 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;
8
 and that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
9
 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It
was
the ninth month, on the twentieth
day
of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of
this
matter, and for the great rain.
10
 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
11
 Now therefore make confession unto the L
ORD
God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
12
 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
13
 But the people
are
many, and
it is
a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither
is this
a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
14
 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
15
 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this
matter:
and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
16
 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest,
with
certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by
their
names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
17
 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
18
 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives:
namely,
of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19
 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and
being
guilty,
they offered
a ram of the flock for their trespass.
20
 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
21
 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
22
 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
23
 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same
is
Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
24
 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
25
 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
26
 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
27
 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
28
 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai,
and
Athlai.
29
 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
30
 And of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
31
 And
of
the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
32
 Benjamin, Malluch,
and
Shemariah.
33
 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh,
and
Shimei.
34
 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
35
 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
36
 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37
 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
38
 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
39
 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
40
 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41
 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42
 Shallum, Amariah,
and
Joseph.
43
 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
44
 All these had taken strange wives: and
some
of them had wives by whom they had children.
1
 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2
 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3
 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4
 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
5
 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6
 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7
 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather
suffer yourselves to
be defrauded?
8
 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that
your
brethren.
9
 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10
 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11
 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12
 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13
 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body
is
not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14
 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15
 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make
them
the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16
 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17
 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18
 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19
 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20
 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
9
 Have mercy upon me, O L
ORD
, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief,
yea,
my soul and my belly.
10
 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11
 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
12
 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13
 For I have heard the slander of many: fear
was
on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
14
 But I trusted in thee, O L
ORD
: I said, Thou
art
my God.
15
 My times
are
in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16
 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
17
 Let me not be ashamed, O L
ORD
; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed,
and
let them be silent in the grave.
18
 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
3
 To do justice and judgment
is
more acceptable to the L
ORD
than sacrifice.
1
 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
2
 that Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and
certain
men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
3
 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province
are
in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also
is
broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
4
 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned
certain
days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
5
 and said, I beseech thee, O L
ORD
God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
6
 let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
7
 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
8
 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying,
If
ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
9
 but
if
ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven,
yet
will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
10
 Now these
are
thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
11
 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.
For I was the king's cupbearer.
2:
1
 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king,
that
wine
was
before him: and I took up the wine, and gave
it
unto the king. Now I had not been
beforetime
sad in his presence.
2
 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why
is
thy countenance sad, seeing thou
art
not sick? this
is
nothing
else
but sorrow of heart.
Then I was very sore afraid,
3
 and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres,
lieth
waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4
 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request?
So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5
 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6
 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
7
 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
8
 and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which
appertained
to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
9
 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
10
 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard
of it,
it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
11
 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12
 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I
any
man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither
was there any
beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
13
 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
14
 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but
there was
no place for the beast
that was
under me to pass.
15
 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and
so
returned.
16
 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told
it
to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
17
 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we
are
in, how Jerusalem
lieth
waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
18
 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me.
And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for
this
good
work.
19
 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard
it,
they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What
is
this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
20
 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
3:
1
 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
2
 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
3
 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who
also
laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
4
 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
5
 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.
6
 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
7
 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
8
 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of
one of
the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
9
 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
10
 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.
11
 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
12
 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
13
 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
14
 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.