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Chronicles 10
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¶And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel
come to make him king.
2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in
Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king,
heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came
and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat
the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he
put upon us, and we will serve thee.
5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And
the people departed.
6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel
give ye me to return answer to this people?
7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people,
and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy
servants for ever.
8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took
counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood
before him.
9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return
answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat
the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him,
saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee,
saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat
lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger
shall be thicker than my father's loins.
11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more
to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
you with scorpions.
12 ¶So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the
third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third
day.
13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook
the counsel of the old men,
14 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father
chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was
of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by
the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto
them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we
in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every
man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house.
So all Israel went to their tents.
17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and
the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But
king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to
Jerusalem.
19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
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Chronicles 11
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¶And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the
house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen
men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might
bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done
of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from
going against Jeroboam.
5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence
in Judah.
6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
Benjamin fenced cities.
11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them,
and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made
them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
13 ¶And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel
resorted to him out of all their coasts.
14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and
came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast
them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:
15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the
devils, and for the calves which he had made.
16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their
hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice
unto the LORD God of their fathers.
17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam
the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked
in the way of David and Solomon.
18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son
of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which
bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all
his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore
concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be
ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout
all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city:
and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
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Ezekiel
45
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1 ¶Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance,
ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the
land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand
reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy
in all the borders thereof round about.
2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length,
with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits
round about for the suburbs thereof.
3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and
twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall
be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers
of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD:
and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for
the sanctuary.
5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand
of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house,
have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation
of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the
other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession
of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before
the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from
the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one
of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes
shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall
they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9 ¶Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of
Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice,
take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth
part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and
twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
13 ¶This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part
of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part
of an ephah of an homer of barley:
14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer
the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten
baths; for ten baths are an homer:
15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the
fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering,
and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith
the Lord GOD.
16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince
in Israel.
17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and
meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new
moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel:
he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the
burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation
for the house of Israel.
18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day
of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and
cleanse the sanctuary:
19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and
put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of
the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner
court.
20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one
that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the
house.
21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall
have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall
be eaten.
22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for
all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering
to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily
the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock,
and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall
he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the
sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to
the meat offering, and according to the oil.
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John
12
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1 ¶Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was
one of them that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly,
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair:
and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given
to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was
a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying
hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and
they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus
also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also
to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and
believed on Jesus.
12 ¶On the next day much people that were come to the feast,
when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and
cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the
name of the Lord.
14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it
is written,
15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting
on an ass's colt.
16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when
Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were
written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus
out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that
he had done this miracle.
19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how
ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
20 ¶And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to
worship at the feast:
21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of
Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip
tell Jesus.
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son
of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into
the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth
forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his
life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there
shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father
honour.
27 ¶Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father,
save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven,
saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that
it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but
for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this
world be cast out.
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto
me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ
abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted
up? who is this Son of man?
35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with
you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you:
for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the
children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did
hide himself from them.
37 ¶But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet
they believed not on him:
38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which
he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the
arm of the Lord been revealed?
39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they
should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart,
and be converted, and I should heal them.
41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of
him.
42 ¶Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed
on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest
they should be put out of the synagogue:
43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
44 ¶Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth
not on me, but on him that sent me.
45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on
me should not abide in darkness.
47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not:
for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that
judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him
in the last day.
49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me,
he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever
I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
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