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 <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1">The Kingdom Divided</div><div class="p"> 1And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 2And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) 3that they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, 4Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee. 5And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.</div><div class="p"> 6And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? 7And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever. 8But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him: 9and he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? 10And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 11And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.</div><div class="p"> 12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day. 13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him; 14and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 15Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</div><div class="p"> 16So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. 17But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 18Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 19So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. 20And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.</div><div class="p"> 21And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 22But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 23Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, 24Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.</div><div class="p"> 25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.</div><div class="s2">Golden Calves</div><div class="p"> 26And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 30And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. 32And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made. 33So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.</div>
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 <div class="label">13</div><div class="s2">At Beth-el's Altar</div><div class="p"> 1And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. 3And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out. 4And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. 5The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. 6And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. 7And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. 8And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: 9for so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 10So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.</div><div class="p"> 11Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. 12And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. 13And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, 14and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am. 15Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. 16And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: 17for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 18He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. 19So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.</div><div class="p"> 20And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: 21and he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, 22but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. 23And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back. 24And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. 25And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.</div><div class="p"> 26And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him. 27And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. 28And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. 29And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him. 30And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! 31And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones: 32for the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.</div><div class="p"> 33After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. 34And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.</div>
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 <div class="label">143</div><div class="d">A Psalm of David.</div><div class="q1"> 1Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications:</div><div class="q2">In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.</div><div class="q1"> 2And enter not into judgment with thy servant:</div><div class="q2">For in thy sight shall no man living be justified.</div><div class="q1"> 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground;</div><div class="q2">He hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.</div><div class="q1"> 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me;</div><div class="q2">My heart within me is desolate.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works;</div><div class="q2">I muse on the work of thy hands.</div><div class="q1"> 6I stretch forth my hands unto thee:</div><div class="q2">My soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth:</div><div class="q2">Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.</div><div class="q1"> 8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust:</div><div class="q2">Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies:</div><div class="q2">I flee unto thee to hide me.</div><div class="q1"> 10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God:</div><div class="q2">Thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake:</div><div class="q2">For thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.</div><div class="q1"> 12And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies,</div><div class="q2">And destroy all them that afflict my soul: For I am thy servant.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">23</div><div class="q1"> 1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,</div><div class="q2">Consider diligently what is before thee:</div><div class="q1"> 2And put a knife to thy throat,</div><div class="q2">If thou be a man given to appetite.</div><div class="q1"> 3Be not desirous of his dainties:</div><div class="q2">For they are deceitful meat.</div><div class="q1"> 4Labour not to be rich:</div><div class="q2">Cease from thine own wisdom.</div><div class="q1"> 5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?</div><div class="q2">For riches certainly make themselves wings;</div><div class="q2">They fly away as an eagle toward heaven.</div><div class="q1"> 6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,</div><div class="q2">Neither desire thou his dainty meats:</div><div class="q1"> 7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:</div><div class="q2">Eat and drink, saith he to thee;</div><div class="q2">But his heart is not with thee.</div><div class="q1"> 8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,</div><div class="q2">And lose thy sweet words.</div><div class="q1"> 9Speak not in the ears of a fool:</div><div class="q2">For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.</div><div class="q1"> 10Remove not the old landmark;</div><div class="q2">And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:</div><div class="q1"> 11For their redeemer is mighty;</div><div class="q2">He shall plead their cause with thee.</div><div class="q1"> 12Apply thine heart unto instruction,</div><div class="q2">And thine ears to the words of knowledge.</div><div class="q1"> 13Withhold not correction from the child:</div><div class="q2">For if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.</div><div class="q1"> 14Thou shalt beat him with the rod,</div><div class="q2">And shalt deliver his soul from hell.</div><div class="q1"> 15My son, if thine heart be wise,</div><div class="q2">My heart shall rejoice, even mine.</div><div class="q1"> 16Yea, my reins shall rejoice,</div><div class="q2">When thy lips speak right things.</div><div class="q1"> 17Let not thine heart envy sinners:</div><div class="q2">But be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.</div><div class="q1"> 18For surely there is an end;</div><div class="q2">And thine expectation shall not be cut off.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 19Hear thou, my son, and be wise,</div><div class="q2">And guide thine heart in the way.</div><div class="q1"> 20Be not among winebibbers;</div><div class="q2">Among riotous eaters of flesh:</div><div class="q1"> 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:</div><div class="q2">And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.</div><div class="q1"> 22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,</div><div class="q2">And despise not thy mother when she is old.</div><div class="q1"> 23Buy the truth, and sell it not;</div><div class="q2"> Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.</div><div class="q1"> 24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice:</div><div class="q2">And he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.</div><div class="q1"> 25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,</div><div class="q2">And she that bare thee shall rejoice.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 26My son, give me thine heart,</div><div class="q2">And let thine eyes observe my ways.</div><div class="q1"> 27For a whore is a deep ditch;</div><div class="q2">And a strange woman is a narrow pit.</div><div class="q1"> 28She also lieth in wait as for a prey,</div><div class="q2">And increaseth the transgressors among men.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow?</div><div class="q2">Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling?</div><div class="q1">Who hath wounds without cause?</div><div class="q2">Who hath redness of eyes?</div><div class="q1"> 30They that tarry long at the wine;</div><div class="q2">They that go to seek mixed wine.</div><div class="q1"> 31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,</div><div class="q2">When it giveth his colour in the cup,</div><div class="q2"> When it moveth itself aright.</div><div class="q1"> 32At the last it biteth like a serpent,</div><div class="q2">And stingeth like an adder.</div><div class="q1"> 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women,</div><div class="q2">And thine heart shall utter perverse things.</div><div class="q1"> 34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,</div><div class="q2">Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.</div><div class="q1"> 35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;</div><div class="q2">They have beaten me, and I felt it not:</div><div class="q1">When shall I awake?</div><div class="q2">I will seek it yet again.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1">The Third Passover</div><div class="p"> 1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.</div><div class="s2">The Last Supper</div><div class="p"> 2And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 5After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. 6Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 8Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. 9Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 10Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. 11For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.</div><div class="p"> 12So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 13Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. 17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. 18I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. 20Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.</div><div class="p"> 21When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 22Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. 23Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. 24Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. 25He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? 26Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. 28Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. 29For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. 30He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.</div><div class="p"> 31Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. 34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.</div><div class="p"> 36Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 37Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. 38Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.</div>
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 <div class="p">1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2(For he saith,</div><div class="q1">I have heard thee in a time accepted,</div><div class="q1">And in the day of salvation have I succoured thee:</div><div class="m">behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 3Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; 9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 10as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.</div><div class="p"> </div>
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