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Kings 14
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¶In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan
of Jerusalem.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet
not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash
his father did.
4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people
did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his
hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto
that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the
LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for
the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers;
but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah
by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
8 ¶Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another
in the face.
9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was
in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there
passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee
up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle
to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with
thee?
11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel
went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in
the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every
man to their tents.
13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto
the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that
were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15 ¶Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria
with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled
to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem
with his fathers in the city of David.
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years
old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
23 ¶In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king
of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign
in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin.
25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto
the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel,
which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai,
the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter:
for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for
Israel.
27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel
from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the
son of Joash.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and
his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel;
and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
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Ezekiel
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1 ¶Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast
a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering
rams against it round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall
of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it,
and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This
shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the
house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that
thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according
to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt
thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side,
and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days:
I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against
it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn
thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of
thy siege.
9 ¶Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and
make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that
thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt
thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an
hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it
with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat
their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted:
for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which
dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable
flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's
dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the
staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight,
and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with
another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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2
Corinthians 12
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1 ¶It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come
to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the
body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell:
God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body,
I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable
words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but
in mine infirmities.
6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for
I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think
of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of
me.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance
of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart
from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength
is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather
glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon
me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities,
in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am
weak, then am I strong.
11 ¶I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for
I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind
the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience,
in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except
it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will
not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the
children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for
the children.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the
more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty,
I caught you with guile.
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make
a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in
the same steps?
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before
God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I
would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not:
lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings,
swellings, tumults:
21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you,
and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have
not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness
which they have committed.
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Corinthians 13
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1 ¶This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth
of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the
second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore
have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not
spare:
3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward
is not weak, but is mighty in you.
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by
the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live
with him by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in
you, except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
7 ¶Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should
appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though
we be as reprobates.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this
also we wish, even your perfection.
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present
I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath
given me to edification, and not to destruction.
11 ¶Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort,
be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall
be with you.
12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
13 All the saints salute you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and
the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
<<The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi,
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