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Samuel 12
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¶And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him,
and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich,
and the other poor.
2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which
he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him,
and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of
his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to
take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring
man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed
it for the man that was come to him.
5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he
said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this
thing shall surely die:
6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing,
and because he had no pity.
7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered
thee out of the hand of Saul;
8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into
thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if
that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee
such and such things.
9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do
evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with
the sword of the children of Ammon.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house;
because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah
the Hittite to be thy wife.
11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee
out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes,
and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives
in the sight of this sun.
12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all
Israel, and before the sun.
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And
Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou
shalt not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion
to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is
born unto thee shall surely die.
15 ¶And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck
the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted,
and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise
him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread
with them.
18 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?
19 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.
20 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.
21 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.
22 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?
23 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.
24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her,
and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon:
and the LORD loved him.
25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called
his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
26 ¶And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
and took the royal city.
27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against
Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp
against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called
after my name.
29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah,
and fought against it, and took it.
30 And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight
whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was
set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city
in great abundance.
31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them
under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and
made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the
cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned
unto Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah
16
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1 ¶The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons
or daughters in this place.
3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the
daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers
that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in
this land;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented;
neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the
face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and
by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven,
and for the beasts of the earth.
5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace
from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall
not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves,
nor make themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort
them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation
to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
them to eat and to drink.
9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your
days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of
the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 ¶And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the
LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity?
or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken
me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served
them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not
kept my law;
12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk
every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may
not hearken unto me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye
know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve
other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
14 ¶Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had
driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I
gave unto their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they
shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they
shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out
of the holes of the rocks.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from
my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;
because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance
with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day
of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of
the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will
cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that
my name is The LORD.
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Matthew
27
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1 ¶When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders
of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered
him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver
to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed,
and went and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is
not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the
price of blood.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field,
to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this
day.
9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of
him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
11 ¶And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked
him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto
him, Thou sayest.
12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered
nothing.
13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they
witness against thee?
14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor
marvelled greatly.
15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people
a prisoner, whom they would.
16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto
them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which
is called Christ?
18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto
him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have
suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that
they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain
will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which
is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they
cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather
a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the
multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person:
see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and
on our children.
26 ¶Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged
Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common
hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon
his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee
before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the
head.
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from
him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify
him.
32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name:
him they compelled to bear his cross.
33 ¶And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that
is to say, a place of a skull,
34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he
had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They
parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast
lots.
36 And sitting down they watched him there;
37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS
THE KING OF THE JEWS.
38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right
hand, and another on the left.
39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it
in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down
from the cross.
41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes
and elders, said,
42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of
Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe
him.
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him:
for he said, I am the Son of God.
44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same
in his teeth.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
unto the ninth hour.
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This
man calleth for Elias.
48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled
it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to
save him.
50 ¶Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded
up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the
top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which
slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into
the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching
Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they
feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed
Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James
and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
57 ¶When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea,
named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate
commanded the body to be delivered.
59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean
linen cloth,
60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the
rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre,
and departed.
61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over
against the sepulchre.
62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the
chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was
yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third
day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say
unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall
be worse than the first.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it
as sure as ye can.
66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone,
and setting a watch.
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