deep
(dep)adj. deep-er, deep-est. . Extending
far downward below a surface: a deep hole in the river ice. Extending
far inward from an outer surface: a deep cut. Extending far backward from
front to rear: a deep walk-in refrigerator. Extending far from side to side
from a center: a deep yard surrounding the house. Far distant down or in:
deep in the woods. Coming from or penetrating to a depth: a deep sigh.
Sports. Located or taking place near the outer boundaries of the area of play:
deep left field. . Extending a specific distance in a given direction: snow
four feet deep. . Far distant in time or space: deep in the past. . Difficult
to penetrate or understand; recondite: a deep metaphysical theory. Of a
mysterious or obscure nature: a deep secret; ancient and deep tribal
rites. Very learned or intellectual; wise: a deep philosopher.
Exhibiting great cunning or craft: deep political machinations. . Of a
grave or extreme nature: deep trouble; deepest deceit. Very absorbed or
involved: deep in thought; deep in financial difficulties. Profound in quality
or feeling: a deep trance; deep devotion. . Rich and intense in shade. Used of
a color: a deep red. . Low in pitch; resonant: a deep voice. . Covered or
surrounded to a designated degree. Often used in combination: waist-deep in the
water; ankle-deep in snow. . Large in quantity or size; big: deep cuts in the
budget.adv. . To a great depth; deeply: dig deep; feelings that run deep. .
Well along in time; late: worked deep into the night. . Sports. Close to the
outer boundaries of the area of play: played deep for the first three innings;
ran deep into their opponents' territory.n. . A deep place in land or in a body
of water: drowned in the deep of the river. A vast, immeasurable extent: the
deep of outer space. . The extent of encompassing time or space; firmament. .
The most intense or extreme part: the deep of night. . The ocean. . Nautical. A
distance estimated in fathoms between successive marks on a sounding line.
--idiom. deep down. At bottom; basically: Deep down, she was still a rebel. in
deep water. In difficulty.Middle English dep, from Old English deop. See
dheub-.--deep'ly adv. --deep'ness n.
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array
(-ra)v. tr.
ar-rayed, ar-ray-ing, ar-rays. 1. To set out for display or use; place
in an orderly arrangement: arrayed the whole regiment on the parade
ground. 2. To dress in finery; adorn.n. 1. An orderly, often imposing
arrangement: an array of royal jewels. 2. An impressively large number,
as of persons or objects: an array of heavily armed troops; an array
of spare parts. See Synonyms at display. 3. Splendid attire; finery. 4. Mathematics. A rectangular arrangement of
quantities in rows and columns, as in a matrix. Numerical data linearly ordered
by magnitude. 5. Computer Science. An arrangement of memory elements in one or
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com-pel
(km-pel)v. tr. com-pelled, com-pel-ling,
com-pels. . To force, drive, or constrain: Duty compelled the soldiers to
volunteer for the mission. . To necessitate or pressure by force;
exact: An energy crisis compels fuel conservation. See Synonyms at force. . To
exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway: "The land, in a certain,
very real way, compels
the minds of
the people" (Barry Lopez).Middle English compellen, from Latin compellere
: com-, com- + pellere, to drive. See pel-.--com-pel'la-ble adj.
--com-pel'la-bly adv. --com-pel'ler n.
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bish-op-ric
(bish-prik)n. . The office or rank of a
bishop. . The diocese of a bishop.Middle English bishoprik, from Old
English bisceoprice, the diocese of a bishop : bisceop, bishop. See BISHOP +
rice, realm. See reg-.
American Heritage Dictionary
*******
Succoth-benoth
Succoth-benoth
or Succoth Benoth (Hebrew: סֻכּוֹת בְּנוֹת, Booths of Daughters) was a Babylonian
deity, one of the deities brought to the
former kingdom of Samaria by the men of Israel after the exile of Canaan
by Assyria. After resettling large numbers of Canaan's population "in
Halah, in Gozan, on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes"
( Kings :), the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva,
Hamath and Sepharvaim" and settled them in Canaan.
The
"men" from each of these five cities ("national groups" -
NIV) made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the land, mixing it
with the worship of Jehovah.
"The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuthah made
Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and
the Sepharvites ... Adrammelech and Anamelech." ( Kings :-) The Bible
says that these deities were idols, although the Samaritans were not punished
because they worshipped the God of the Israelites as well. Like Ashima, the
identity of Succoth-benoth is unknown. Hayim Tawil noted that Bànitu (Akkadian:
Ba.ni.TUM, "the creaturess") was an epithet of Ishtar in Nineveh, and
postulated the name "Succoth-benoth" was a Hebrew rendition of a
Neo-Babylonian or Neo-Assyrian divine name meaning "the image of
Bànitu".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
God
created
the
heaven
*
and
darkness
was upon
the face
of
the deep.
and
the earth.
And
the
Spirit
of God
moved upon
the face
of
the
waters.
***
And
God
said,
Let
the earth bring forth grass,
the
herb yielding seed,
and
the fruit tree
yielding
fruit
after
his
kind,
whose
seed
isin itself,
upon
the earth:
and
it
was
so.
**
and
whatsoever
Adam
called
every
living creature,
that was
the
name
thereof.
*
And Abel,
he also
brought
of
the firstlings
of
his
flock
and of
the fat
thereof.
And the Lord
had respect
unto Abel
and to
his offering:
**
Wherefore
is it
that thou
dost ask after my
name?
And he
blessed him
there.
****
for
the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man
to till the ground.
**
But
unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and
his countenance fell.
**
and
it
came
to
pass,
when
he went
in
unto
his
brother's
wife,
that
he
spilled
it
on
the
ground,
lest
that he
should
give
seed
to
his
brother.
**
And
the Lord said,
My
spirit
shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh:
***
For
now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are
swallowed up.
For
the arrows
of the
Almighty
are
within
me,
the
poison
whereof
*
whereof
I
commanded
thee
that
thou
shouldest
not eat?
*
drinketh
up
my
spirit:
the
terrors
of God
do
set themselves
in
array against
me.
**
And
God
made the firmament,
and
divided
the waters
which
were
under
the
firmament
from
the
waters
which
were
above
the
firmament:
and
it
was
so.
***
And
it
repented
the
Lord
that
he
had
made
man
on
the
earth,
and
it
grieved
him
at
his heart.
***
For
as
the
heavens
are
higher
than
the
earth,
so
are my ways
higher than your
ways,
and
my thoughts
than
your thoughts.
For
as
the rain
cometh
down,
and
the snow
from
heaven,
and
returneth
not thither,
but
watereth the earth,
and
maketh
it
bring
forth
and
bud,
that it
may
give seed
to
the
sower,
and
bread
to
the
eater:
***
How
art
thou
fallen from
heaven,
O
Lucifer,
son
of
the
morning!
how
art
thou
cut
down
to
the
ground,
which
didst
weaken
the
nations!
For
thou hast
said
in
thine
heart,
I
will
ascend into heaven,
I
will exalt my
throne
above
the stars
of
God:
**
When
thou
tillest
the
ground,
it
shall
not
henceforth
yield
unto
thee
her
strength;
a fugitive
and
a vagabond shalt thou
be
in
the earth.
***
And
the
thing
which
he did
displeased
the Lord:
**
And
he
said,
Cast
it
on the
ground.
And
he cast
it on
the
ground,
and
it
became
a serpent;
**
For
the children
of
Israel
walked in all
the sins
of
Jeroboam
which
he did;
they
departed
not
from
them;
Until the Lord
removed Israel out of his
sight, as he had said by all his
servants the prophets.
So was
Israel carried
away out of
their own land to Assyria unto this
day.
And
the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and
from Ava, and from Hamath,
and
from Sepharvaim, and
placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children
of Israel: and
they possessed Samaria, and
dwelt in the cities thereof.
And so
it
was
at
the
beginning
of
their
dwelling
there,
that they
feared
not
the Lord:
therefore the
Lord sent lions among them, which slew some
of them.
Wherefore
they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which
thou hast removed, and
placed in
the cities of Samaria, know
not
the
manner of the God of the land: therefore he
hath sent lions among them, and,
behold, they slay them, because they know not the
manner of the God of the land.
**
Mt
16:16
He saith unto him, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon answered and said, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Immanuel
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon: for flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee, but my Father
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Samon,
and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.
And I will give
unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall
be loosed in heaven.
**
Le
10:9 Le 10:11
And
the Lord spake
unto
Aaron,
saying,
Do not drink wine nor strong
drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go
into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die:
it shall
be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
And
that ye
may put
difference
between
holy and
unholy,
and
between
unclean
and
clean;
And
that ye may
teach the children of Israel all
the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto
them by the hand of Moses.
**
And
the Lord spake
unto Aaron,
Behold,
I also have given thee
the charge of mine heave
offerings of all the hallowed things of the children
of Israel;
unto
thee
have I
given them by reason of the anointing, and
to thy
sons,
by an ordinance
for ever.
This
shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from
the fire: every oblation of theirs,
every meat offering of theirs, and
every sin
offering of theirs, and
every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall
render unto me, shall be most
holy for thee and
for thy
sons.
**
male and
female
created
he them.
**
In
the most holy place shalt
thou eat it;
every male shall eat it:
it
shall be holy unto
thee.
*****
And
the Lord said unto
Abram, after that Lot was separated from him,
Lift up now thine eyes, and
look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and
westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will
I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
*****
And
this
is
thine;
the heave
offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings
of the children of Israel: I
have given them unto
thee, and to thy
sons and
to thy
daughters with thee, by a statute for
ever: every one that is clean
in thy
house
shall eat of it.
All the best of the
oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them
which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.
And whatsoever is
first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine;
every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
Every thing
devoted in Israel shall be thine.
Every thing that
openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be
of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou
surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
And those that are
to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine
estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
which is twenty gerahs.
But the firstling
of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt
not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and
shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the
Lord.
And the flesh of
them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right
shoulder are thine.
**
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.
And
the child
Samuel
ministered
unto the Lord
before
Eli.
And the word of
the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
***
Then
the
king of Assyria commanded, saying,
Carry
thither
one
of
the
priests
whom
ye
brought
from thence;
and
let them go and
dwell there, and
let
him
teach them the manner of the God of the land.
Then one
of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and
dwelt in
Bethel,
and taught them
how they should fear the Lord.
**
And
the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said,
Here
am I.
. . .
I am
the
God
of Bethel,
where thou
anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me:
. . .
**
Howbeit every
nation made gods of their own, and
put them In the houses of the high places which the
Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities
wherein they dwelt.
And
the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth,
and
the men of Cuth made Nergal,
and
the men of Hamath made Ashima,
And
the Avites made Nibhaz and
Tartak,
and
the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to
Adrammelech and Anammelech,
the
gods of Sepharvaim.
**
Sepharvaim
Sepharvaim (Hebrew: סְפַרְוָיִם) was a city mentioned
in the Bible as being captured by the Assyrians. It was taken by a
king of Assyria, probably Sargon II, (cited in the Old Testament in 2 Kings
17:24, 31; 18:34; 19:13; Book of Isaiah 37:13). It was a double city,
and received the common name Sepharvaim, i.e., "the two Sipparas," or
"the two booktowns."
The Sippara on the east bank of the Euphrates
is now called Abu-Habba; that on the other bank was Akkad, the old
capital of Sargon I, where he established a great library.
The recent discovery of cuneiform inscriptions at Tell el-Amarna in
Egypt, consisting of official despatches to Pharaoh Amenophis IV. and
his predecessor from their agents in Canaan, leads some Egyptologists to
conclude that in the century before the Exodus an active
literary intercourse was carried on between these nations, and that the
medium of the correspondence was the Assyrian language and script. (See
Kirjath-Sepher.) However, it has not been conclusively proven which Egyptian
Pharaoh the Amarna Letters reference or that the Israelite Exodus necessarily
occurred after these letters.
Sepharvaim
was the center of the worship of the god Adrammelech. They also
worshipped the god Anammelech. After the deportation of the Israelite tribes,
at least some of the residents of this city were brought to Samaria to
repopulate it with other Gentile settlers.
From Wikipedia
**
God
created
the
heaven
*
and
darkness
was upon
the face
of
the deep.
and
the earth.
And
the
Spirit
of God
moved upon
the face
of
the
waters.
***
And
God
said,
Let
the earth bring forth grass,
the
herb yielding seed,
and
the fruit tree
yielding
fruit
after
his
kind,
whose
seed
isin itself,
upon
the earth:
and
it
was
so.
**
and
whatsoever
Adam
called
every
living creature,
that was
the
name
thereof.
*
And Abel,
he also
brought
of
the firstlings
of
his
flock
and of
the fat
thereof.
And the Lord
had respect
unto Abel
and to
his offering:
**
Wherefore
is it
that thou
dost ask after my
name?
And he
blessed him
there.
****
for
the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man
to till the ground.
**
But
unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and
his countenance fell.
**
and
it
came
to
pass,
when
he went
in
unto
his
brother's
wife,
that
he
spilled
it
on
the
ground,
lest
that he
should
give
seed
to
his
brother.
**
And
the Lord said,
My
spirit
shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh:
***
For
now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are
swallowed up.
For
the arrows
of the
Almighty
are
within
me,
the
poison
whereof
*
whereof
I
commanded
thee
that
thou
shouldest
not eat?
*
drinketh
up
my
spirit:
the
terrors
of God
do
set themselves
in
array against
me.
**
And
God
made the firmament,
and
divided
the waters
which
were
under
the
firmament
from
the
waters
which
were
above
the
firmament:
and
it
was
so.
***
And
it
repented
the
Lord
that
he
had
made
man
on
the
earth,
and
it
grieved
him
at
his heart.
***
For
as
the
heavens
are
higher
than
the
earth,
so
are my ways
higher than your
ways,
and
my thoughts
than
your thoughts.
For
as
the rain
cometh
down,
and
the snow
from
heaven,
and
returneth
not thither,
but
watereth the earth,
and
maketh
it
bring
forth
and
bud,
that it
may
give seed
to
the
sower,
and
bread
to
the
eater:
***
How
art
thou
fallen from
heaven,
O
Lucifer,
son
of
the
morning!
how
art
thou
cut
down
to
the
ground,
which
didst
weaken
the
nations!
For
thou hast
said
in
thine
heart,
I
will
ascend into heaven,
I
will exalt my
throne
above
the stars
of
God:
**
When
thou
tillest
the
ground,
it
shall
not
henceforth
yield
unto
thee
her
strength;
a fugitive
and
a vagabond shalt thou
be
in
the earth.
***
And
the
thing
which
he did
displeased
the Lord:
**
And
he
said,
Cast
it
on the
ground.
And
he cast
it on
the
ground,
and
it
became
a serpent;
**
For
the children
of
Israel
walked in all
the sins
of
Jeroboam
which
he did;
they
departed
not
from
them;
Until the Lord
removed Israel out of his
sight, as he had said by all his
servants the prophets.
So was
Israel carried
away out of
their own land to Assyria unto this
day.
And
the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and
from Ava, and from Hamath,
and
from Sepharvaim, and
placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children
of Israel: and
they possessed Samaria, and
dwelt in the cities thereof.
And so
it
was
at
the
beginning
of
their
dwelling
there,
that they
feared
not
the Lord:
therefore the
Lord sent lions among them, which slew some
of them.
Wherefore
they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which
thou hast removed, and
placed in
the cities of Samaria, know
not
the
manner of the God of the land: therefore he
hath sent lions among them, and,
behold, they slay them, because they know not the
manner of the God of the land.
**
Mt
16:16
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon answered and said, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Immanuel
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon: for flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee, but my Father
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Samon,
and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.
And I will give
unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall
be loosed in heaven.
**
Le
10:9 Le 10:11
And
the Lord spake
unto
Aaron,
saying,
Do not drink wine nor strong
drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go
into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die:
it shall
be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
And
that ye
may put
difference
between
holy and
unholy,
and
between
unclean
and
clean;
And
that ye may
teach the children of Israel all
the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto
them by the hand of Moses.
**
And
the Lord spake
unto Aaron,
Behold,
I also have given thee
the charge of mine heave
offerings of all the hallowed things of the children
of Israel;
unto
thee
have I
given them by reason of the anointing, and
to thy
sons,
by an ordinance
for ever.
This
shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from
the fire: every oblation of theirs,
every meat offering of theirs, and
every sin
offering of theirs, and
every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall
render unto me, shall be most
holy for thee and
for thy
sons.
**
male and
female
created
he them.
**
In
the most holy place shalt
thou eat it;
every male shall eat it:
it
shall be holy unto
thee.
*****
And
the Lord said unto
Abram, after that Lot was separated from him,
Lift up now thine eyes, and
look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and
westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will
I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
*****
And
this
is
thine;
the heave
offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings
of the children of Israel: I
have given them unto
thee, and to thy
sons and
to thy
daughters with thee, by a statute for
ever: every one that is clean
in thy
house
shall eat of it.
All the best of the
oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them
which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.
And whatsoever is
first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine;
every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
Every thing
devoted in Israel shall be thine.
Every thing that
openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be
of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou
surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
And those that are
to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine
estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
which is twenty gerahs.
But the firstling
of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt
not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and
shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the
Lord.
And the flesh of
them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right
shoulder are thine.
**
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.
And
the child
Samuel
ministered
unto the Lord
before
Eli.
And the word of
the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
***
Then
the
king of Assyria commanded, saying,
Carry
thither
one
of
the
priests
whom
ye
brought
from thence;
and
let them go and
dwell there, and
let
him
teach them the manner of the God of the land.
Then one
of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and
dwelt in
Bethel,
and taught them
how they should fear the Lord.
**
And
the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said,
Here
am I.
. . .
I am
the
God
of Bethel,
where thou
anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me:
. . .
**
Howbeit every
nation made gods of their own, and
put them In the houses of the high places which the
Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities
wherein they dwelt.
And
the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth,
and
the men of Cuth made Nergal,
and
the men of Hamath made Ashima,
And
the Avites made Nibhaz and
Tartak,
and
the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to
Adrammelech and Anammelech,
the
gods of Sepharvaim.
**
Sepharvaim
Sepharvaim (Hebrew: סְפַרְוָיִם) was a city mentioned
in the Bible as being captured by the Assyrians. It was taken by a
king of Assyria, probably Sargon II, (cited in the Old Testament in 2 Kings
17:24, 31; 18:34; 19:13; Book of Isaiah 37:13). It was a double city,
and received the common name Sepharvaim, i.e., "the two Sipparas," or
"the two booktowns."
The Sippara on the east bank of the Euphrates
is now called Abu-Habba; that on the other bank was Akkad, the old
capital of Sargon I, where he established a great library.
The recent discovery of cuneiform inscriptions at Tell el-Amarna in
Egypt, consisting of official despatches to Pharaoh Amenophis IV. and
his predecessor from their agents in Canaan, leads some Egyptologists to
conclude that in the century before the Exodus an active
literary intercourse was carried on between these nations, and that the
medium of the correspondence was the Assyrian language and script. (See
Kirjath-Sepher.) However, it has not been conclusively proven which Egyptian
Pharaoh the Amarna Letters reference or that the Israelite Exodus necessarily
occurred after these letters.
Sepharvaim
was the center of the worship of the god Adrammelech. They also
worshipped the god Anammelech. After the deportation of the Israelite tribes,
at least some of the residents of this city were brought to Samaria to
repopulate it with other Gentile settlers.
From Wikipedia
**
So
they feared the Lord, and made unto themselves of the
lowest of them priests of the high places,
which sacrificed for them in
the houses of the high places.
***
Mt
12:23
And
all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son
of David?
**
The name David is
not in referring to the ancient King David, but to David the high priest of Bethel,
Immanuel’s father.
**
Mt
13:55
Is not this the
carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and
Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Is not this David’s
son? is not his mother called Shelomith? and his brother, .
. . .
Simon, .. . . .?
**
Mt 27:31 - Mt 27:32
And after that
they had mocked him,
they took the robe off
from him, … and led him
away to crucify him.
And as they
came out, they found a man,
Simon
by name:
him
they compelled to bear his cross.
**
Simon Speaks
Acts.1
The
former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Emmanuel began
both to
do
and
teach,
Until
the day in which he was taken up, after that
he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles
whom he
had chosen:
***
Mr
1:9 - Mr 1:13
And
it
came to pass in those days, that Immanuel came from Bethel,
and was baptized of Elisha in Jordan.
And
straightway
coming
up out
of
the
water,
he saw
the
heavens
opened,
and
the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
And
there came a voice from heaven, saying,
Thou
art
my
beloved
Son,
in
whom
I
am
well
pleased.
And
immediately the Spirit driveth him into
the wilderness.
And
he was
there
in
the
wilderness
forty
days,
**
And
Joseph's
master
took him,
and
put him into
the prison,
a
place
where
the king's
prisoners
were bound:
and
he
was there
in
the prison.
***********
And
the Lord said unto Moses,
Write
thou these words:
for
after
the
tenor
of these words
I
have
made
a
covenant
with
thee
and
with Israel.
And
he was there
with
the Lord
forty
days
and
forty nights;
he
did
neither
eat
bread,
nor
drink
water.
And
he wrote
upon
the tables
the
words
of
the
covenant,
the
ten
commandments.
***
and
was with
the
wild beasts;
and
the angels
ministered
unto him.
**
Mr
1:14
Now
after that Elisha was put in prison, Immanuel came into Galilee, preaching the
gospel of the kingdom of God,
And
saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,
and believe the gospel.
******
Acts.1
And she again
bare
his
brother Simon.
Simon his
brother speaks
To
whom also he
shewed
himself
alive after his
passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and
speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
And, being assembled together with them,
commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but
wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye
have heard of me.
For Elisha truly baptized with water; but ye
shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
When they therefore were come
together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again
the kingdom to Israel?
And he said unto them, It is not for you to
know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
But ye shall receive power, after that the
Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of
the earth.
And when he had spoken these things, while
they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven
as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand
ye gazing up into heaven? this same Emanuel, which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the
mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
And when they were come in, they went up into
an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip,
and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
These all continued with one accord in prayer
and supplication, with the women, and Shelomith the mother of Emanuel, and with
his brethren.
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst
of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred
and twenty,)
Men and brethren, this scripture must needs
have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before
concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Emanuel.
For he was numbered with us, and had obtained
part of this ministry.
Now this man purchased a field with the reward
of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his
bowels gushed out.
And it was known unto all the dwellers at
Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama,
that is to say, The field of blood.
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let
his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick
let another take.
Wherefore of these men which have companied
with us all the time that the Lord Emmanuel went in and out among us,
Beginning from the baptism of Elisha, unto
that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a
witness with us of his resurrection.
And they appointed two, Joseph called
Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which
knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast
chosen,
That he may take part of this ministry and
apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his
own place.
And they gave forth their lots; and the lot
fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as
of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews,
devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude
came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in
his own language.
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying
one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue,
wherein we were born?
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the
dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the
parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in
our tongues the wonderful works of God.
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt,
saying one to another, What meaneth this?
Others mocking said, These men are full of new
wine.
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted
up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at
Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose,
seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
But this is that which was spoken by the
prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days,
saith God,I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old
men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I
will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and
signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the
moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Emmanuel of
Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Him, being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have
crucified and slain:
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw
the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not
be moved:
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue
was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life;
thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you
of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is
with us unto this day.
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that
God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to
the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
He seeing this before spake of the
resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh
did see corruption.
This Emmanuel hath God raised up, whereof we
all are witnesses.
Therefore being by the right hand of God
exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he
hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
For David is not ascended into the heavens:
but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know
assuredly, that God hath made that same Emanuel, whom ye have crucified, both
Lord and Christ.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in
their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and
brethren, what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Emmanuel Christ for the remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your
children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall
call.
And with many other words did he testify and
exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Then they that gladly received his word were
baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand
souls.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles'
doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
And fear came upon every soul: and many
wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
And all that believed were together, and had
all things common;
And sold their possessions and goods, and
parted them to all men, as every man had need.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in
the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with
gladness and singleness of heart,
Praising God, and having favour with all the
people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Now
Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being
the ninth hour.
And a certain man lame from his mother's womb
was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called
Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the
temple asked an alms.
And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with
John, said, Look on us.
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to
receive something of them.
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none;
but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Emmanuel Christ of Bethel rise
up and walk.
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted
him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and
entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
And all the people saw him walking and
praising God:
And they knew that it was he which sat for
alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and
amazement at that which had happened unto him.
And as the lame man which was healed held
Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is
called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the
people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on
us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of
Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Emanuel; whom ye
delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined
to let him go.
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and
desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath
raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
And his name through faith in his name hath
made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath
given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
And now, brethren, I wot that through
ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
But those things, which God before had shewed
by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so
fulfilled.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that
your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord;
And he shall send Emmanuel Christ, which
before was preached unto you:
Whom the heaven must receive until the times
of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world began.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A
prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto
me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
And it shall come to pass, that every soul,
which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and
those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of
these days.
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of
the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy
seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Emmanuel,
sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
And
as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and
the Sadducees, came upon them,
Being grieved that they taught the people, and
preached through Emmanuel the resurrection from the dead.
And they laid hands on them, and put them in
hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
Howbeit many of them which heard the word
believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that their
rulers, and elders, and scribes,
And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and
John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest,
were gathered together at Jerusalem.
And when they had set them in the midst, they
asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said
unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
If we this day be examined of the good deed
done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
****
1Sa
8:7 1Sa 16:1
And
the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have
rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I
will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among
his sons.
And
Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said,
Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
And
call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou
shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
And
Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of
the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
And
he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves,
and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and
called them to the sacrifice.
And
it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely
the Lord's anointed is before him.
But
the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his
stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for
man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Then
Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither
hath the Lord chosen this.
Then
Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
1Sa
16:1Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said
unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these.
********
Be it known unto you all, and to all the
people of Israel, that by the name of Emmanuel Christ of Bethel, whom ye
crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here
before you whole.
This is the stone which was set at nought of
you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for
there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and
John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled;
and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Emmanuel.
And beholding the man which was healed
standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
But when they had commanded them to go aside
out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
Saying, What shall we do to these men? for
that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them
that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
But that it spread no further among the
people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in
this name.
And they called them, and commanded them not
to speak at all nor teach in the name of Emmanuel.
But Peter and John answered and said unto
them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than
unto God, judge ye.
For we cannot but speak the things which we
have seen and heard.
So when they had further threatened them, they
let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people:
for all men glorified God for that which was done.
For the man was above forty years old, on whom
this miracle of healing was shewed.
And being let go, they went to their own
company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
And when they heard that, they lifted up their
voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast
said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
The kings of the earth stood up, and the
rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
For of a truth against thy holy child Emmmanuel,
whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and
the people of Israel, were gathered together,
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel
determined before to be done.
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and
grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and
that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Emmanuel.
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken
where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
And the multitude of them that believed were
of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things
which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
And with great power gave the apostles witness
of the resurrection of the Lord Emanuel: and great grace was upon them all.
Neither was there any among them that lacked:
for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the
prices of the things that were sold,
And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and
distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed
Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and
of the country of Cyprus,
Having land, sold it, and brought the money,
and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But
a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
And kept back part of the price, his wife also
being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles'
feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled
thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the
land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and
after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this
thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and
gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
And the young men arose, wound him up, and
carried him out, and buried him.
And it was about the space of three hours
after, when his wife, not knowing what was
done,
came in.
And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether
ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye
have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them
which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Then fell she down straightway at his feet,
and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and,
carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
And great fear came upon all the church, and
upon as many as heard these things.
And by the hands of the apostles were many
signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord
in Solomon's porch.
And of the rest durst no man join himself to
them: but the people magnified them.
And believers were the more added to the Lord,
multitudes both of men and women.)
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into
the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of
Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
There came also a multitude out of the cities
round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with
unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
Then the high priest rose up, and all they
that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with
indignation,
And laid their hands on the apostles, and put
them in the common prison.
But the angel of the Lord by night opened the
prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
Go, stand and speak in the temple to the
people all the words of this life.
And when they heard that, they entered into
the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they
that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the
children of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought.
But when the officers came, and found them not
in the prison, they returned, and told,
Saying, The prison truly found we shut with
all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had
opened, we found no man within.
Now when the high priest and the captain of
the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them
whereunto this would grow.
Then came one and told them, saying, Behold,
the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the
people.
Then went the captain with the officers, and
brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should
have been stoned.
And when they had brought them, they set them
before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that
ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with
your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and
said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
The God of our fathers raised up Emanuel, whom
ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be
a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of
sins.
And we are his witnesses of these things; and
so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
When they heard that, they were cut to the
heart, and took counsel to slay them.
Then stood there up one in the council, a
Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the
people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take
heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.
For before these days rose up Theudas,
boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred,
joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were
scattered, and brought to nought.
After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the
days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and
all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
And now I say unto you, Refrain from these
men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will
come to nought:
But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it;
lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
And to him they agreed: and when they had
called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak
in the name of Emanuel, and let them go.
And they departed from the presence of the
council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
And daily in the temple, and in every house,
they ceased not to teach and preach Emmanuel Christ.
And
in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a
murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were
neglected in the daily ministration.
Then the twelve called the multitude of the
disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word
of God, and serve tables.
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you
seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may
appoint over this business.
But we will give ourselves continually to
prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
And the saying pleased the whole multitude:
and they chose Simon, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip,
and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of
Antioch:
Whom they set before the apostles: and when
they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
And the word of God increased; and the number
of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the
priests were obedient to the faith.
And Simon, full of faith and power, did great
wonders and miracles among the people.
Then there arose certain of the synagogue,
which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and
Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Simon.
And they were not able to resist the wisdom
and the spirit by which he spake.
Then they suborned men, which said, We have
heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
And they stirred up the people, and the
elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to
the council,
And set up false witnesses, which said, This
man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the
law:
For we have heard him say, that this Emmanuel of
Bethlehem shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses
delivered us.
And all that sat in the council, looking
stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Acts.
Then said the high priest, Are these things
so?
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers,
hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in
Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
Then came he out of the land of the
Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he
removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no,
not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him
for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
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And God spake on this wise, That his seed
should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage,
and entreat them evil four hundred years.
And the nation to whom they shall be in
bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve
me in this place.
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision:
and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat
Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold
Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
And delivered him out of all his afflictions,
and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he
made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of
Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in
Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
And at the second time Joseph was made known
to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob
to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he,
and our fathers,
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in
the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the
father of Sychem.
But when the time of the promise drew nigh,
which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Till another king arose, which knew not
Joseph.
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and
evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the
end they might not live.
In which time Moses was born, and was
exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter
took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
And when he was full forty years old, it came
into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he
defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
For he supposed his brethren would have
understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood
not.
And the next day he shewed himself unto them
as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are
brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him
away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the
Egyptian yesterday?
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a
stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
And when forty years were expired, there
appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame
of fire in a bush.
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight:
and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God
of Abrham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and
durst not behold.
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes
from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my
people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to
deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made
thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer
by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
He brought them out, after that he had shewed
wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the
wilderness forty years.
This is that Moses, which said unto the
children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your
brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
This is he, that was in the church in the
wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our
fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust
him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before
us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot
not what is become of him.
And they made a calf in those days, and
offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship
the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of
Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty
years in the wilderness?
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and
the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will
carry you away beyond Babylon.
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in
the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make
it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Which also our fathers that came after brought
in with Emmanuel into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before
the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Who found favour before God, and desired to
find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
But Solomon built him an house.
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples
made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my
footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of
my rest?
Hath not my hand made all these things?
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and
ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers
persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the
Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Who have received the law by the disposition
of angels, and have not kept it.
When they heard these things, they were cut to
the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked
up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Emmanuel standing on
the right hand of God,
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened,
and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and
stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him:
and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was
Saul.
And they stoned Simon, calling upon God, and
saying, Lord Emanuel, receive my spirit.
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud
voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he
fell asleep.
ISamuelO
