But with thee
will
I establish my covenant;
and
thou shalt come
into the ark,
thou,
and thy sons,
and thy wife,
and thy
sons' wives
with thee.
And Noah
awoke from his wine,
and knew
what his younger son
had done unto him.
And he said,
Cursed
be Canaan;
a servant
of servants
shall
he be
unto his brethren.
And he said,
Blessed
be the LORD God
of Shem;
and Canaan
shall be
his servant.
God shall enlarge
Japheth,
and
he shall dwell in the tents
of Shem;
and Canaan
shall be
his servant.
And Abraham
said
unto God,
O that Ishmael
might live
before thee!
For I
know him,
that he
will command
his children
and his household
after him,
and
they shall keep
the way
of the LORD,
to do justice
and judgment;
that the LORD
may bring
upon Abraham
that which
he hath spoken of him.
And the water
was spent
in the bottle,
and she cast
the child
under one
of the shrubs.
And she went,
and sat
her down over
against him a good way off,
as it were a bow shot:
for she said,
Let me
not see
the death
of the child.
And
she
sat over against him,
and lift
up her voice,
and wept.
And her brother
and her mother said,
Let the damsel
abide
with us a few days,
at the least ten;
after that she shall go.
And Isaac
loved Esau,
because
he did eat
of his venison:
but Rebekah
loved Jacob.
And Rebekah
spake unto Jacob
her son,
saying,
Behold,
I heard
thy father
speak
unto Esau thy brother,
saying,
Bring me venison,
and make me
savoury meat,
that I
may eat,
and bless thee
before the LORD
before my death.
Now therefore,
my son,
obey my voice
according to
that which
I command thee.
Go now
to the flock,
and fetch me
from thence
two good kids
of the goats;
and I
will make them
savoury meat
for thy father,
such as
he loveth:
And
thou shalt bring
it to thy father,
that he
may eat,
and
that he
may bless thee
before his death.
And Jacob
said
to Rebekah
his mother,
Behold,
Esau my brother
is a hairy man,
and
I am a smooth man:
My father peradventure
will feel me,
and I
shall seem
to him
as a deceiver;
and I
shall bring
a curse
upon me,
and not
a blessing.
And his mother
said unto him,
Upon me
be
thy curse,
my son:
only obey
my voice,
and go
fetch me them.
And he went,
and fetched,
and brought them
to his mother:
and his mother
made savoury meat,
such as
his father loved.
And Rebekah
took goodly raiment
of her eldest son Esau,
which were with her
in the house,
and put them
upon Jacob
her younger son:
And she put
the skins
of the kids
of the goats
upon his hands,
and
upon the smooth
of his neck:
And
she gave
the savoury meat
and the bread,
which she
had prepared,
into the hand
of her son Jacob.
And his father Isaac
said unto him,
Come near now,
and kiss me,
my son.
And he came near,
and kissed him:
and he
smelled
the smell
of his raiment,
and blessed him,
and said,
See,
the smell
of my son
is as the smell
of a field
which the LORD
hath blessed:
And God Almighty
bless thee,
and make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee,
that thou
mayest be
a multitude
of people;
And give thee
the blessing
of Abraham,
to thee,
and to thy
seed with thee;
that thou
mayest inherit
the land
wherein
thou art
a stranger,
which God
gave unto Abraham.
And Laban
said
to Jacob,
What
hast
thou done,
that thou
hast stolen away unawares to me,
and carried away
my daughters,
as captives
taken
with the sword?
Wherefore didst
thou flee
away secretly,
and
steal away from me;
and didst not tell me,
that I
might have sent thee
away with mirth,
and with songs,
with tabret,
and with harp?
And hast not suffered me
to kiss
my sons
and my daughters?
thou hast now done foolishly
in so doing.
And he put
the handmaids
and their children foremost,
and Leah
and her children after,
and Rachel
and Joseph hindermost.
Now Israel
loved Joseph
more than all his children,
because
he was the son
of his old age:
and he
made him
a coat
of many colours.
And
when his brethren
saw
that their father
loved him more than all
his brethren,
they hated him,
and
could not speak peaceably unto him.
But Benjamin,
Joseph's brother,
Jacob
sent not
with his brethren;
for he said,
Lest peradventure mischief
befall him.
And he said,
My son
shall not go down
with you;
for his brother
is dead,
and
he is left alone:
if mischief
befall
him
by the way
in the which
ye go,
then shall
ye bring down
my gray hairs
with sorrow
to the grave.
Take
also your brother,
and arise,
go again
unto the man:
And God Almighty
give
you mercy
before the man,
that he
may send away
your other brother,
and Benjamin.
If I
be bereaved
of my children,
I am bereaved.
And told him,
saying,
Joseph is yet alive,
and
he is governor
over all
the land
of Egypt.
And Jacob's heart fainted,
for he
believed them not.
And
they told him all
the words
of Joseph,
which he
had said unto them:
and
when
he saw the wagons
which Joseph
had sent
to carry him,
the spirit
of Jacob
their father revived:
And Israel said,
It is enough;
Joseph my son
is yet alive:
I will go
and see him
before I die.
Now
the eyes
of Israel
were dim for age,
so that
he could not see.
And he
brought
them near
unto him;
and
he kissed them,
and embraced them.
And Israel
said
unto Joseph,
I had not thought
to see
thy face:
and,
lo,
God hath shewed me also
thy seed.
And
he blessed Joseph,
and said,
God,
before whom
my fathers Abraham
and Isaac
did walk,
the God which
fed me all my life long
unto this day,
The Angel which
redeemed me
from all evil,
bless the lads;
and let
my name
be named on them,
and the name
of my fathers Abraham
and Isaac;
and let them
grow
into a multitude
in the midst
of the earth.
And
when Joseph
saw
that his father
laid
his right hand
upon the head
of Ephraim,
it displeased him:
and
he held up
his father's hand,
to remove
it
from Ephraim's
head
unto Manasseh's head.
And Joseph
said
unto his father,
Not so,
my father:
for this
is the firstborn;
put thy
right hand
upon his head.
And his father refused,
and said,
I know it,
my son,
I know it:
he also shall become
a people,
and
he also shall be great:
but truly
his younger brother
shall be greater than he,
and his seed
shall become
a multitude
of nations.
And
he blessed them
that day,
saying,
In thee
shall
Israel bless,
saying,
God make thee
as Ephraim
and as Manasseh:
and
he set Ephraim
before Manasseh.
Moreover I
have given
to thee one
portion above thy brethren,
which I
took out of the hand
of the Amorite
with my sword
and with my bow.
And Jacob
called
unto his sons,
and said,
Gather yourselves
together,
that
I may tell you
that which
shall befall you
in the last days.
Gather yourselves together,
and hear,
ye sons of Jacob;
and hearken
unto Israel your father.
Reuben,
thou art
my firstborn,
my might,
and the beginning
of my strength,
the excellency
of dignity,
and the excellency
of power:
Unstable as water,
thou shalt not excel;
because
thou wentest up to
thy father's bed;
then defiledst
thou it:
he went up to my couch.
Simeon
and Levi
are brethren;
instruments
of cruelty
are in their habitations.
O my soul,
come not
thou
into their secret;
unto their assembly,
mine honour,
be not
thou united:
for in their anger
they slew a man,
and
in their selfwill
they digged
down a wall.
Cursed
be their anger,
for it
was fierce;
and their wrath,
for it
was cruel:
I will divide them
in Jacob,
and scatter them
in Israel.
Judah,
thou art
he whom
thy brethren
shall praise:
thy hand
shall be
in the neck
of thine enemies;
thy father's children
shall bow down
before thee.
Judah is a lion's whelp:
from the prey,
my son,
thou art gone up:
he stooped down,
he couched
as a lion,
and
as an old lion;
who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre
shall not depart
from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from
between his feet,
until Shiloh come;
and
unto him shall
the gathering
of the people be.
Binding his foal
unto the vine,
and his ass's colt
unto the choice vine;
he washed his garments
in wine,
and his clothes
in the blood
of grapes:
His eyes
shall be red
with wine,
and his teeth white
with milk.
Zebulun
shall dwell
at the haven
of the sea;
and
he shall be
for an haven
of ships;
and his border
shall be
unto Zidon.
Issachar is
a strong ass
couching down
between two burdens:
And he
saw that rest
was good,
and the land
that it
was pleasant;
and bowed
his shoulder
to bear,
and became
a servant
unto tribute.
Dan shall judge
his people,
as one
of the tribes
of Israel.
Dan shall be
a serpent
by the way,
an adder
in the path,
that biteth the horse heels,
so that
his rider
shall fall backward.
I have waited
for thy salvation,
O LORD.
Gad,
a troop
shall overcome him:
but
he shall overcome
at the last.
Out of Asher his bread
shall be fat,
and
he shall yield
royal dainties.
Naphtali is a hind let loose:
he giveth goodly words.
Joseph is a fruitful bough,
even a fruitful bough
by a well;
whose branches
run over
the wall:
The archers
have sorely grieved him,
and shot at him,
and hated him:
But his bow abode
in strength,
and the arms
of his hands
were made strong
by the hands
of the mighty God
of Jacob;
(from thence is the shepherd,
the stone
of Israel:)
Even by the God
of thy father,
who shall help thee;
and
by the Almighty,
who shall bless thee
with blessings
of heaven above,
blessings
of the deep
that lieth under,
blessings
of the breasts,
and
of the womb:
The blessings
of thy
father
have prevailed above
the blessings
of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound
of the everlasting hills:
they shall be on the head
of Joseph,
and on the crown
of the head
of him that
was separate
from his brethren.
Benjamin shall ravin
as a wolf:
in the morning
he shall devour
the prey,
and at night
he shall divide
the spoil.
All these
are
the twelve tribes
of Israel:
and this
is it
that their father
spake unto them,
and blessed them;
every one
according to
his blessing
he blessed them.
And
that thou
mayest tell
in the ears
of thy son,
and of thy son's son,
what things
I have wrought
in Egypt,
and my signs
which I
have done among them;
that ye
may know how
that I
am the LORD.
And it
shall come
to pass,
when your children
shall say
unto you,
What
mean
ye by this service?
That ye
shall say,
It is the sacrifice
of the LORD's passover,
who passed
over the houses
of the children
of Israel
in Egypt,
when
he smote the Egyptians,
and delivered
our houses.
And the people
bowed
the head
and worshipped.
And
thou shalt shew
thy son
in that day,
saying,
This
is done
because
of that
which the LORD
did unto me
when
I came forth out of Egypt.
And it
shall be
when thy son
asketh thee
in time to
come,
saying,
What is this?
that thou
shalt say unto him,
By strength
of hand the LORD
brought us out
from Egypt,
from the house
of bondage:
Thou shalt not bow
down thyself
to them,
nor serve them:
for I
the LORD thy God
am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity
of the fathers
upon the children
unto the third
and fourth generation
of them that hate me;
And shewing mercy
unto thousands of
them that love me,
and keep
my commandments.
But the seventh day
is the sabbath
of the LORD thy God:
in it
thou shalt not do
any work,
thou,
nor thy son,
nor thy daughter,
thy manservant,
nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle,
nor thy stranger
that is
within thy gates:
And
he that
curseth his father,
or his mother,
shall surely be put
to death.
Then I
will set
my face
against that man,
and
against his family,
and
will cut him off,
and all that
go
a whoring
after him,
to commit whoredom
with Molech,
from among their people.
For every one
that curseth
his father
or his mother
shall be surely put
to death:
he hath cursed
his father
or his mother;
his blood
shall be upon him.
Six days
shall work
be done:
but the seventh day
is the sabbath
of rest,
an holy convocation;
ye shall do
no work therein:
it is the sabbath
of the LORD
in all your dwellings.
Only take
heed to thyself,
and keep
thy soul diligently,
lest
thou forget
the things
which thine
eyes
have seen,
and lest
they depart
from thy heart
all the days
of thy life:
but teach them
thy sons,
and thy sons' sons;
Specially the day
that thou
stoodest before the LORD
thy God in Horeb,
when the LORD
said unto me,
Gather me
the people
together,
and
I will make them
hear my words,
that they
may learn
to fear me all
the days
that they
shall live
upon the earth,
and
that they
may teach
their children.
And
thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk
of them
when thou
sittest in thine house,
and when thou
walkest by the way,
and
when
thou liest down,
and
when
thou
risest up.
And
when thy son
asketh thee
in time to
come,
saying,
What
mean
the testimonies,
and the statutes,
and the judgments,
which the LORD our God
hath commanded you?
Then thou
shalt say
unto thy son,
We were Pharaoh's bondmen
in Egypt;
and the LORD
brought
us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand:
And the LORD
shewed
signs
and wonders,
great
and sore,
upon Egypt,
upon Pharaoh,
and
upon all his household,
before our eyes:
And he
brought
us out
from thence,
that he
might bring us in,
to give us the land
which he
sware unto our fathers.
And the LORD
commanded us
to do all
these statutes,
to fear the LORD
our God,
for our good
always,
that he
might preserve us alive,
as it is at this day.
Therefore shall
ye lay up
these my words
in your heart
and in your soul,
and bind them
for a sign
upon your hand,
that they
may be as frontlets
between your eyes.
And
ye shall teach them
your children,
speaking of them
when thou
sittest in thine house,
and when thou
walkest by the way,
when
thou liest down,
and
when
thou
risest up.
And
thou shalt write them
upon the door posts
of thine house,
and upon thy gates:
That your days
may be multiplied,
and the days
of your children,
in the land
which the LORD
sware unto your fathers
to give them,
as the days
of heaven
upon the earth.
And
he said unto them,
Set your hearts
unto all the words which
I testify
among you
this day,
which ye
shall command
your children
to observe to do,
all the words
of this law.
And Naomi
said
unto her two daughters
in law,
Go,
return each
to her mother's house:
the LORD
deal kindly
with you,
as ye
have dealt with
the dead,
and with me.
The LORD grant you
that
ye may find rest,
each of you
in the house
of her husband.
Then
she kissed them;
and they
lifted
up their voice,
and wept.
For this child
I prayed;
and the LORD
hath given me
my petition
which I
asked of him:
Moreover his mother
made him
a little coat,
and brought it
to him
from year to year,
when
she came up with
her husband
to offer
the yearly sacrifice.
And there came a man
of God unto Eli,
and
said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Did I
plainly appear
unto the house
of thy father,
when they
were in Egypt
in Pharaoh's house?
And did
I choose him
out of all the tribes
of Israel to be
my priest,
to offer
upon mine altar,
to burn incense,
to wear an ephod
before me?
and did
I give
unto the house
of thy
father all
the offerings
made
by fire
of the children
of Israel?
Wherefore
kick
ye at my sacrifice
and at mine offering,
which I
have commanded
in my habitation;
and honourest
thy sons above me,
to make yourselves fat
with the chiefest
of all the offerings
of Israel my people?
Wherefore
the LORD God
of Israel saith,
I said indeed
that thy house,
and the house
of thy father,
should walk
before me
for ever:
but now
the LORD saith,
Be it far
from me;
for them that honour
me I
will honour,
and
they that
despise me
shall be lightly esteemed.
Behold,
the days come,
that I
will cut off
thine arm,
and the arm
of thy father's house,
that there shall not be
an old man
in thine house.
And
thou shalt see
an enemy
in my habitation,
in all the wealth which God
shall give Israel:
and there shall not be
an old man
in thine
house
for ever.
And the man
of thine,
whom
I shall not cut off
from mine altar,
shall be
to consume
thine eyes,
and to grieve
thine heart:
and all
the increase
of thine
house
shall die
in the flower
of their age.
And this
shall be a sign
unto thee,
that shall come upon
thy two sons,
on Hophni
and Phinehas;
in one day
they shall die both
of them.
And
I will raise me
up a faithful priest,
that shall do according to
that
which is in mine heart
and in my mind:
and
I will build him
a sure house;
and he
shall walk
before mine
anointed
for ever.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that every one
that is left
in thine
house
shall come and
crouch to him
for a piece
of silver
and a morsel
of bread,
and shall say,
Put me,
I pray thee,
into one
of the priests' offices,
that I
may eat
a piece
of bread.
For I
have told him that
I will judge
his house for
ever for the iniquity
which he knoweth;
because
his sons
made themselves vile,
and
he restrained them not.
And
therefore I
have sworn
unto the house
of Eli,
that the iniquity
of Eli's
house
shall not be purged
with sacrifice nor
offering
for ever.
And the Philistines fought,
and Israel
was smitten,
and
they fled every man
into his tent:
and there was
a very great slaughter;
for there fell
of Israel
thirty thousand footmen.
And
the ark
of God
was taken;
and the two sons
of Eli,
Hophni
and Phinehas,
were slain.
And there ran a man
of Benjamin
out of the army,
and came
to Shiloh
the same day
with his clothes rent,
and with earth
upon his head.
And when he came,
lo,
Eli sat
upon a seat
by the wayside watching:
for his heart
trembled
for the ark
of God.
And
when the man
came
into the city,
and told it,
all the city cried out.
And
when Eli
heard
the noise
of the crying,
he said,
What
meaneth
the noise
of this tumult?
And the man
came
in hastily,
and told Eli.
Now Eli
was ninety
and eight years old;
and his eyes
were dim,
that he
could not see.
And the man
said
unto Eli,
I am
he that
came
out of the army,
and
I fled to day
out of the army.
And he said,
What is there done,
my son?
And the messenger
answered
and said,
Israel
is fled
before the Philistines,
and there hath been also
a great slaughter
among the people,
and thy two sons also,
Hophni
and Phinehas,
are dead,
and
the ark
of God
is taken.
And it
came
to pass,
when he
made
mention
of the ark
of God,
that he
fell from
off the seat
backward by the side
of the gate,
and his neck brake,
and he died:
for he
was an old man,
and heavy.
And
he had judged
Israel forty years.
And his daughter
in law,
Phinehas' wife,
was with child,
near to be delivered:
and
when
she heard
the tidings that
the ark
of God
was taken,
and
that her father
in law
and her husband
were dead,
she bowed herself
and travailed;
for her pains
came upon her.
And
about the time
of her death
the women
that stood by
her
said unto her,
Fear not;
for thou
hast born a son.
But
she answered not,
neither did
she regard it.
And
she named
the child Ichabod,
saying,
The glory
is departed
from Israel:
because
the ark
of God
was taken,
and
because
of her father
in law
and her husband.
And she said,
The glory
is departed
from Israel:
for the ark
of God
is taken.
And now,
O LORD God,
the word
that thou
hast spoken concerning
thy servant,
and concerning his house,
establish it
for ever,
and do as thou
hast said.
And let
thy name
be magnified
for ever,
saying,
The LORD of hosts
is the God
over Israel:
and let
the house
of thy servant David
be established
before thee.
For thou,
O LORD of hosts,
God of Israel,
hast revealed
to thy servant,
saying,
I will build
thee an house:
therefore hath
thy servant found
in his heart
to pray this prayer
unto thee.
And now,
O Lord GOD,
thou art that God,
and thy
words
be true,
and
thou hast promised
this goodness
unto thy servant:
Therefore now let
it please
thee to bless
the house
of thy servant,
that it
may continue for
ever before thee:
for thou,
O Lord GOD,
hast spoken it:
and with thy
blessing
let the house
of thy servant
be blessed
for ever.
David therefore besought God
for the child;
and David fasted,
and went in,
and lay all night
upon the earth.
And it
came
to pass
on the seventh day,
that the child died.
And the servants
of David feared
to tell him
that the child
was dead:
for they said,
Behold,
while the child
was yet alive,
we spake unto him,
and
he would not hearken
unto our voice:
how will he
then vex himself,
if we
tell him
that the child
is dead?
But
when David
saw
that his servants whispered,
David
perceived
that the child
was dead:
therefore David
said
unto his servants,
Is the child dead?
And they said,
He is dead.
Then David
arose
from the earth,
and washed,
and anointed himself,
and changed
his apparel,
and came
into the house
of the LORD,
and worshipped:
then he
came
to his own house;
and
when he required,
they set bread
before him,
and he did eat.
Then said
his servants
unto him,
What thing
is this
that thou
hast done?
thou didst fast
and weep
for the child,
while it
was alive;
but
when the child
was dead,
thou didst rise
and eat bread.
And he said,
While the child
was yet alive,
I fasted
and wept:
for I said,
Who can tell
whether GOD
will be gracious to me,
that the child
may live?
But now
he is dead,
wherefore should
I fast?
can
I bring him
back again?
I shall go
to him,
but
he shall not return to me.
So Absalom fled,
and went to Geshur,
and was there
three years.
And the soul
of king
David longed
to go forth
unto Absalom:
for he
was comforted concerning Amnon,
seeing
he was dead.
Now Joab
the son
of Zeruiah
perceived
that the king's heart
was toward Absalom.
So Joab
came
to the king,
and told him:
and
when
he had called for
Absalom,
he came
to the king,
and bowed himself
on his face
to the ground
before the king:
and the king
kissed Absalom.
And the king
commanded Joab
and Abishai
and Ittai,
saying,
Deal
gently for my sake
with the young man,
even with Absalom.
And all
the people
heard
when the king
gave all
the captains
charge concerning
Absalom.
And the man
said
unto Joab,
Though I
should receive
a thousand shekels
of silver
in mine hand,
yet would
I not put forth mine hand
against the king's son:
for in our hearing
the king charged thee
and Abishai
and Ittai,
saying,
Beware that none
touch the young man Absalom.
Otherwise
I should have wrought falsehood
against mine own life:
for there is
no matter
hid from the king,
and
thou thyself
wouldest have set thyself
against me.
And the king
was much moved,
and went up to
the chamber
over the gate,
and wept:
and as he went,
thus
he said,
O my son Absalom,
my son,
my son Absalom!
would God I
had died
for thee,
O Absalom,
my son,
my son!
And it
was told
Joab, Behold,
the king
weepeth
and mourneth
for Absalom.
And the victory
that day
was turned into
mourning unto all
the people:
for the people
heard
say that day
how the king
was grieved
for his son.
And the people gat them
by stealth
that day
into the city,
as people
being ashamed
steal away
when
they flee
in battle.
But the king covered
his face,
and the king
cried
with a loud voice,
O my son Absalom, O Absalom,
my son,
my son!
And Joab
came
into the house
to the king,
and said,
Thou
hast shamed
this day
the faces
of all thy servants,
which this day
have saved
thy life,
and the lives
of thy sons
and of thy daughters,
and the lives
of thy wives,
and the lives
of thy concubines;
In that thou
lovest thine enemies,
and hatest thy friends.
For thou
hast declared
this day,
that thou
regardest neither princes
nor servants:
for this day
I perceive,
that if Absalom
had lived,
and all
we had died
this day,
then it
had pleased thee well.
And Rizpah
the daughter
of Aiah
took sackcloth,
and spread it
for her
upon the rock,
from the beginning
of harvest
until water
dropped
upon them
out of heaven,
and suffered
neither the birds
of the air
to rest
on them
by day,
nor the beasts
of the field
by night.
And his father
had not displeased him
at any time
in saying,
Why hast
thou done so?
and he
also was
a very goodly man;
and his mother
bare him
after Absalom.
And the other woman said,
Nay;
but the living
is my son,
and the dead
is thy son.
And this said,
No;
but the dead
is thy son,
and the living
is my son.
Thus
they spake before the king.
Then said
the king,
The one saith,
This
is
my son
that liveth,
and thy son
is the dead:
and the other saith,
Nay;
but thy son
is the dead,
and my son
is the living.
And the king said,
Bring me
a sword.
And they
brought
a sword
before the king.
And the king said,
Divide the living child
in two,
and give half
to the one,
and half
to the other.
Then spake
the woman whose the
living child
was unto the king,
for her bowels
yearned
upon her son,
and she said,
O my lord,
give her
the living child,
and in no wise
slay it.
But the other said,
Let it
be
neither mine
nor thine,
but divide it.
Then the king
answered
and said,
Give her
the living child,
and in no wise
slay it:
she is
the mother thereof.
And all Israel
heard
of the judgment
which the king
had judged;
and
they feared
the king:
for they
saw
that the wisdom
of God
was in him,
to do judgment.
And David
the king
came
and sat
before the LORD,
and said,
Who am I,
O LORD God,
and what
is
mine house,
that thou
hast brought me hitherto?
And yet
this was
a small thing
in thine eyes,
O God;
for thou
hast also spoken
of thy servant's house
for a great
while to come,
and hast regarded me according to
the estate
of a man
of high degree,
O LORD God.
What can
David speak more
to thee
for the honour
of thy servant?
for thou
knowest thy servant.
O LORD,
for thy servant's sake,
and
according to
thine own heart,
hast
thou done all
this greatness,
in making
known all
these great things.
O LORD,
there is none like thee,
neither is there any
God beside thee,
according to all
that
we have heard
with our ears.
And
what
one nation
in the earth
is like
thy people Israel,
whom
God went
to redeem to be
his own people,
to make
thee a name
of greatness
and terribleness,
by driving
out nations from
before thy people whom
thou
hast redeemed out of Egypt?
For thy people Israel
didst
thou make
thine own people
for ever;
and thou,
LORD,
becamest their God.
Therefore now,
LORD,
let the thing
that thou
hast spoken concerning
thy servant
and concerning his house
be established
for ever,
and do as thou
hast said.
Let it
even be established,
that thy
name
may be magnified
for ever,
saying,
The LORD of hosts
is the God
of Israel,
even a God
to Israel:
and let
the house
of David
thy servant
be established
before thee.
For thou,
O my God,
hast told
thy servant
that thou
wilt build him
an house:
therefore thy servant
hath found
in his heart
to pray
before thee.
And now,
LORD,
thou art God,
and hast promised
this goodness
unto thy servant:
Now therefore let
it please
thee to bless
the house
of thy servant,
that it
may be
before thee
for ever:
for thou blessest,
O LORD,
and it
shall be blessed
for ever.
Only the LORD
give thee wisdom
and understanding,
and give thee
charge concerning
Israel,
that thou
mayest keep the law
of the LORD thy God.
And give
unto Solomon my son
a perfect heart,
to keep
thy commandments,
thy testimonies,
and thy statutes,
and to do all
these things,
and to build
the palace,
for the which
I have made provision.
And it
was so,
when the days
of their feasting
were gone about,
that Job
sent
and sanctified them,
and rose up early
in the morning,
and offered
burnt offerings
according to
the number
of them all:
for Job said,
It may be
that my sons
have sinned,
and cursed God
in their hearts.
Thus did Job continually.
For he established
a testimony
in Jacob,
and appointed
a law in Israel,
which he
commanded
our fathers,
that they
should make them
known to their children:
That the generation
to come
might know them,
even the children
which should be born;
who should arise
and declare them
to their children:
Like as a father
pitieth his children,
so the LORD
pitieth them
that fear him.
But
the mercy
of the LORD
is from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him,
and his righteousness
unto children's children;
For whom the LORD
loveth
he correcteth;
even as a father
the son
in whom
he delighteth.
A good man
leaveth
an inheritance
to his children's children:
and
the wealth
of the sinner
is laid up
for the just.
Chasten thy son
while there is hope,
and let not
thy soul
spare
for his crying.
Train up a child
in the way
he should go:
and
when he
is old,
he will not depart
from it.
Foolishness is bound
in the heart
of a child;
but
the rod
of correction
shall drive it far
from him.
Withhold not correction
from the child:
for if
thou beatest him
with the rod,
he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him
with the rod,
and shalt deliver
his soul
from hell.
My son,
be wise,
and make
my heart glad,
that I
may answer him
that reproacheth me.
The rod
and reproof
give wisdom:
but a child
left to himself
bringeth
his mother
to shame.
Correct thy son,
and
he shall give
thee rest;
yea,
he shall give
delight unto thy soul.
Her children
arise up,
and call
her blessed;
her husband also,
and
he praiseth her.
Thou shalt not be joined
with them
in burial,
because
thou hast destroyed
thy land,
and slain
thy people:
the seed
of evildoers
shall never be renowned.
The living,
the living,
he shall praise thee,
as I
do this day:
the father
to the children
shall make
known
thy truth.
Can a woman
forget her
sucking child,
that she
should not have compassion
on the son
of her womb?
yea,
they may forget,
yet will
I not forget thee.
As one whom
his mother comforteth,
so will
I comfort you;
and
ye shall be comforted
in Jerusalem.
But have walked
after the imagination
of their own heart,
and after Baalim,
which their fathers
taught them:
At the same time,
saith the LORD,
will
I be
the God
of all
the families
of Israel,
and
they shall be
my people.
Leave thy fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive;
and let
thy widows
trust in me.
Our fathers
have sinned,
and are not;
and
we have borne
their iniquities.
Behold,
every one that
useth
proverbs
shall use
this proverb
against thee,
saying,
As is the mother,
so is her daughter.
Thou art
thy mother's daughter,
that lotheth
her husband and her children;
and
thou art
the sister
of thy sisters,
which lothed
their husbands
and their children:
your mother
was an Hittite,
and your father
an Amorite.
Tell
ye your children of it,
and let
your children
tell their children,
and their children
another generation.
And he
shall turn
the heart
of the fathers
to the children,
and the heart
of the children
to their fathers,
lest
I come
and smite
the earth
with a curse.
He that
loveth
father
or mother more than me
is not worthy of me:
and he
that loveth son
or daughter
more than me
is not worthy of me.
While he
yet talked
to the people,
behold,
his mother
and his brethren
stood without,
desiring
to speak with him.
And besought him greatly,
saying,
My little daughter
lieth
at the point
of death:
I pray thee,
come and lay thy
hands on her,
that she
may be healed;
and
she shall live.
And straightway
the father
of the child cried out,
and said
with tears,
Lord,
I believe;
help
thou mine unbelief.
And
when
they saw him,
they were amazed:
and his mother
said unto him,
Son,
why hast
thou thus dealt with us?
behold,
thy father
and
I have sought
thee sorrowing.
If a son
shall ask
bread
of any of you
that is
a father,
will
he give him
a stone?
or if
he ask a fish,
will
he for a fish
give him
a serpent?
Or if
he shall ask
an egg,
will
he offer him
a scorpion?
If ye then,
being evil,
know how
to give good gifts
unto your children:
how much more
shall
your heavenly Father
give
the Holy Spirit
to them that ask him?
His mother
saith unto the servants,
Whatsoever
he saith unto you,
do it.
The nobleman
saith unto him,
Sir,
come
down ere my child die.
Now there stood by the cross
of Jesus his mother,
and his mother's sister,
Mary the wife
of Cleophas,
and Mary Magdalene.
Behold,
the third time
I am ready
to come to you;
and
I will not be burdensome
to you:
for I
seek not your's but you:
for the children
ought not
to lay up
for the parents,
but the parents
for the children.
And,
ye fathers,
provoke not your children
to wrath:
but bring them up
in the nurture
and admonition
of the Lord.
Fathers,
provoke not your children
to anger,
lest
they be discouraged.
As ye
know how
we exhorted
and comforted
and charged
every one of you,
as a father
doth his children,
One that
ruleth well
his own house,
having his children
in subjection
with all gravity;
(For
if a man
know not how
to rule
his own house,
how shall
he take care of
the church
of God?)
Let the deacons
be the husbands
of one wife,
ruling their children
and their own
houses well.
But
if any
provide not
for his own,
and specially for those
of his own house,
he hath denied
the faith,
and is worse
than an infidel.
If any
be blameless,
the husband
of one wife,
having
faithful children
not accused
of riot
or unruly.
That they
may teach
the young women
to be sober,
to love their husbands,
to love their children,
If ye
endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as
with sons;
for what son
is
he whom
the father
chasteneth not?