Shakespeare's Codex
By Timothy Burns Watson

The Shakespeare authorship has deeply puzzled thinking people for over 400 years. How could a commoner study works in foreign tongues and retell the story in a new language in the process of development? It doesn't make any sense unless he was part of an avante garde movement of the British intelligensia. How could he possibly know the words and spellings of a vocabulary only recently introduced to English by Bacon's Fra Rosy Cross literary society as loan words from Latin and Italian? His caste position alone would deny him entry into this club of pirage and privilege. What if he was a mere front man, so that the real author could hide behind the scenes rather like the beggar dressed up like a lord in the opening scene of "Taming of the Shrew"? "Shaksper" is a far cry from "Shakespeare", a totally different spelling for a totally different man, but a spelling close enough to "Shakespeare" to allow the intelligence operation to succeed in duping successive generations of bard lovers for over 400 years.
The truth is that when the author's name appeared on the first folio of plays it was hyphenated "Shake-speare", proving that it was a pen name employed by some invisible personage. Why the deception? Because the bard was a British agent employed by H.M.S.S. who required a code name to conceal his true identity. Were his identity to be revealed, he would be in danger and many of the personages of the court he was lampooning in his plays would be exposed to the general public's gaze, which would have been a serious threat to national security. So the secret had to be kept and for national security reasons has been kept for 400 years. The code name of British agent Edward de Vere was actually derived from Pallas Athena, the patron goddess of the secret writing society he worked for called The Honourable Order of the Knights of the Helmet also named in honor of Pallas, the Spear-shaker, who always shook her spear at the twin serpents of ignorance and vice and who wore the helmet of invisibility, which rendered her invisible every time she drew the visor down over her face. Initiates of Sir Francis Bacons's secret propaganda ministry would kiss the helmet of Pallas when they joined and subsequently wrote under pen names or anonymously. Bacon would refer to these propagandists as his "team of good pens". The Earl of Oxford was one such very "good pen".
Paul Streitz's book "Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth the I" recently created quite a stir in the international press for suggesting the author was actually the Queen's son. The Virgin Queen as she was known was not called so for her virtue, but for her occult witchcraft status as the incarnation of the moon goddess Diana otherwise known as Virginia, the virgin huntress and goddess of the moon. She had purportedly carried the child of her stepfather, Thomas Seymour, who empreganted her at the age of 16, forcing her to farm the child out for adoption to the home of the 16th Earl of Oxford to be raised as a changeling child. The secret prince would remain a state secret. A second liaison would occur with Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, when Elizabeth and he were both confined to the Tower by Queen Mary. The product of that liaison would be a second child, whose identity was also concealed as a changeling child of the home of Lord and Lady Bacon. That prodigy would grow up to own one of the most illustrious names and careers in European history as Sir Francis Bacon.
The relationship forged between the half brothers allowed them to work closely on the secret writing fraternities they formed. Bacon and his brother Roger Bacon would also work closely together, spawning H.M.S.S. through their joint efforts as well as Fra Rosy Cross and The Honourable Order of the Knights of the Helmet. Bacon and his brother Roger would go on to found most of the intelligence services of the European continent and would set up Masonic and Rosicrucian Lodges throughout Europe. This explains why high-ranking officers in the British and American military and intelligence units tend to belong to secret societies like the Freemasons and Rosicrucians to this day. Promotion within military-intelligence makes Masonic or Rosicrucian affiliation a practical prerequisite.
The most prestigious Shakespeare academic journal known as The Shakespeare Quarterly is located in Washington D.C. and is run by the Folger Gallery, which Paul Streitz exposes as a fraud in his book. The Folger Gallery actually committed a crime against history and scholarship by painting over a portrait purported to be of Edward de Vere that was also said to be a painting of the real Shakespeare. The museum's motivation for perpetrating this crime was to make the bard's cranium conform to the classical notion of what "the bald guy" is actually supposed to have looked like. It is amazing indeed to think that Shakespeare scholarship is actually entrusted to custodians of this kind. Why English departments around the world are not up in arms about this only attests to the fact that something stinks in Denmark.
Some people have asked me how I could seriously believe that Bacon or Oxford wrote the plays when 99% of academia have believed otherwise for 400 years? How could such a deception be orchestrated people ask and why? The answer is really very simple. The Freemasons created and control the university degree system based on the first three degrees of Freemasonry: Entered Apprentice cooresponding with Bachelor's Degree, Fellow Craft corresponding with Master's Degree and Master Mason commensurate with Ph.D. Thus, rank within the academic establishment is defined not by the pursuit of truth, but with one's adherence to the fascist and duplicitous aims of the most powerful crime syndicate in the world - Freemasonry. Intellectual prostitutes are of higher degree and gain all the privilege, while genuine philosophers are relegated to the bottom of the social pyramid and denied tenure. Here I am lanquishing at the bottom of the academic world for espousing truths, but I'm the better man for it I console myself.
Revealing the truth about the authorship of the Shakespeare plays has grave implications for both British and American national security because it exposes the modus operandi of the front man used in so many of their clandestine operations A.K.A. John Wilkes Boothe, front man for the Lincoln assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald patsy for JFK assassination, Timothy McVeigh, front man for the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms operation to sabotage the Murrah Building in order to destroy the files on the highly reactive vaccinations given to the Gulf War Vets now suffering and dying from Gulf War Syndrome, Osama bin Laden, boggy man for 9/11 inside job for planned second Pearl Harbor, pretext for invasion in oil rich countries of the Middle East, etc. That is why the Shakespeare Quarterly and Folger Gallery are located in Washington, D.C. The hawks in Washington want to keep a very close eye on Shakespeare criticism to ensure that the front man, Will Shaksper, gets all the press, while articles about the Oxford/Bacon connection continue to be suppressed. I leave you with one final question: Why are discoveries and insights like this not seen in popular bestsellers and mainstream news media publications? You may now be able to answer such questions for yourself.

"How could a commoner study works in foreign tongues and retell the story in a new language in the process of development?"

It's called genius. It's not for nothing that Shakespeare is still the most written-about writer in the world. almost four centuries after his last work.

"The hawks in Washington want to keep a very close eye on Shakespeare criticism to ensure that the front man, Will Shaksper, gets all the press"

Oh, of course! How silly of me! This is Indymedia. Shakespeare's genius can only be explained here as an international right-wing conspiracy of the Illuminati.

By the way, if you study the history of the English language, you'll see that spelling really didn't become a hang-up until later on. Take a look at a facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), for example -- the main document by which we know Shakespeare's plays -- and you'll see the same words spelled different ways on the same page.

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Gehrig actually said something that wasn't about nessie, Israel or Zionism. That doesn't happen too often.

See:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?K5912506B

And if this were Indybay, they would have censored it.

Nessie tries to make a thread that's not about him turn into a thread about him. Utterly not amazing.

And it's funny to see someone simultaneously calling the higher education system a fraudulent conspiracy having nothing to do with education _and_ simultaneously claiming that Shakespeare couldn't have learned any foreign languages because he was a "commoner" who didn't go to a university.

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"You may now be able to answer such questions for yourself. "

Not really. By conflating the - apparently - main topic of your post, with references to numerous other conspiracies which can't be seen as relevant without a major injection of contextualising information, you've done nothing to shed light on anything.
Yes - major conspiracies and mysteries exist. However, you seem to be obfuscating and thus making agenda/coincidence analysis extremely difficult.

Actually, it looks like you're a Bot, or maybe just a smart arse.
I await your evidence, though I won't be holding my breath!

It's true--gehrig trolls IMC's nationwide, and focuses almost exclusively on defending zionist terror.
This is refreshing.

"God has herpes"

* rolling eyes *

Nutcases, whackos, sociopaths, and neanderthals. Welcome to the Indymedia movement.

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Funny how gehrig disses indymedia, but trolls them coast to coast, fanatically.
What an idiot.

Makes sense. But what aobut you?
You have been guilty of playing into the one-liner/ad hominem/ego matches here, too.

Not about "nessie," but about gehrig. He's a blight on the Indymedia network. Anybody new to Indymedia, who first heard of him by reading that post about Shakespeare, might mistakenly conclude otherwise. So i enlightend them to the truth.

>I have such a strong sense of what Indymedia could be,

What he means is it could be "a soapbox for racists like him." And it was, and to a limited extent, it still is. But those days are numbered. One by one IMCs are wising up, and throwing the racists out. Even Indybay as put their foot down.

Racists don't belong in Indymedia and their propaganda does not belong on Indymedia bandwidth. Everytime one of them shows up, anywhere on the network, one of us is going to point that out.

Not about gehrig, but about "nessie". He's a blight on the Indymedia network. Anybody new to Indymedia, who first heard of him by reading his response to gehrig's post about Shakespeare, might mistakenly conclude otherwise. So we're enlightening them to the truth.

>I have such a strong sense of what Indymedia could be,

What he means is it could be much more than "a soapbox for racists like nessie." And it was, and to a limited extent, it still is. But those days are numbered. One by one IMCs are whitling down, and throwing the anti-racists out. Even Indybay has put their foot in their ass.

Racists don't belong in Indymedia and their propaganda does not belong on Indymedia bandwidth. Everytime one of them shows up, anywhere on the network, one of us is going to point that out. Throw nessie out.

I agree, I've succumbed to the basest of flaming and non-productive dialogue here at times. I'm done w/ it.
But what aobut you?
You have been guilty of playing into the one-liner/ad hominem/ego matches here, too.

Once again they demonstrate what fundamentally dishonest people they are:


http://www.sfimc.net/news/2002/12/1555696_comment.php#1692248

(snip)

Sometimes they take something that an anti-Zionist has written, subtly alter it’s meaning by changing a few words, and post it under the name of the original author.

(snip)

* * * * *

Zionists love to sign other people's names. False flag ops are their specialty. We cannot help but wonder how many atrocities they have signed Osama bin Laden's name to, or Hamas' or the PLO's.

Once again he demonstrates what fundamentally dishonest a person he is:


http://www.sfimc.net/news/2002/12/1555696_comment.php#1962248

(snip)

Sometimes he takes something that a Zionist has written, subtly alters its meaning by changing a few words, and posts it under the name of the original author.

(snip)

* * * * *

Anti-Zionists love to sign other people's names. False flag ops are their specialty. We cannot help but wonder how many atrocities they have signed Ehud Barak's name to, or Irgun's or the Haganah's.

People who do stuff like this can't be trusted to be telling the truth about anything. Zionists lie as a matter of routine policy. They have to. There is no honest defense of ethnic cleansing.

There he goes again. People who say stuff like this can't be trusted to be telling the truth about anything. Anti-Zionists lie as a matter of routine policy. They have to. There is no honest defense of ethnic cleansing of Jews.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/hidden.php?id=160301

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I didn't realize LA Indymedia was hiding any comments at all, let alone the more well thought out, poingnant, and in fact peaceful ones.

That's why they don't even try. Instead they try to distract you with lies and logical fallacies. When that doesn't work, they try to smother discussion with gibberish. Don't fall for it.

Indymedia is getting better and better. The kind of posts it was getting in 2002, for example, made a mockery of both journalism and activism. Bt slowly but surely, one by one, local IMCs are wising up, setting standards and instituting quality control.

That lie is why nessie tries to distract you with lies and logical fallacies. When that doesn't work, he tries to smother discussion with threats of violence. Don't fall for it.

Indymedia is getting worse and worse. The kind of posts it was getting in 2002, for example, were immeasurably better from the perspective of both journalism and activism. Slowly but surely, one by one, local IMCs are whittling down, setting shoddier standards and removing quality control.

They have no honest answer, so they flood the thread with meaningless gibberish.

>See what I mean?

This begs the question. Readers cannot "see" what he means.

>They have no honest answer,

There was no honest question.

>so they flood the thread with meaningless gibberish.

Who are "they"!?!

Nessie euphemizes political censorship as "quality control." But what happens when an Indymedia site actually follows nessie's suggests on the best way to run an Indymedia site? We don't have to wonder. We can see it directly. Let's look at what nessie's editorial policies did to the readership of SF-IMC, the IMC site he runs as -- more or less -- his own private blog.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=max&size=large&compare_sites=http://www.sfimc.net/&y=r&url=http://www.indybay.org/#top

See that reddish fringe that pretty much disappears after 2003? That's former SF-IMC readers, before nessie's policies chased them away to other sites, including his arch-nemesis Indybay, a collective formed in large part to get out from under nessie's procedural lock on SF-IMC.

Nessie insists his policies have only chased away the bad guys. Well, let's just take a look at the last three months.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=http://www.sfimc.net/&y=r&url=http://www.indybay.org/#top

Under nessie's tender care, SF-IMC has fallen and it can't get up. Apparently, in nessie's mind, pretty much every last person who read SF-IMC in the past was a bad guy, and when they were chased off, there was essentially nobody left.

So when nessie claims that he's the model of what an IMC should be, ask yourself: why does he want to promote policies that he knows demonstrably devastate readership? Why does devastating IMC readership strike him as a good thing, not a bad one?

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...why the traffic goes down. Down goes huge amounts of Zionazi propaganda, from multiple zionazi authors, outraged responses to same and then ( blink blink ) people get to merely read the serious discussion lines.
Note.
SF IMC does edit for fairly rigid quality stands now in response to past assaults like the one here at this time.
So don't bitch about it.
Action, re-action.

"Down goes huge amounts of Zionazi propaganda, from multiple zionazi authors, outraged responses to same and then ( blink blink ) people get to merely read the serious discussion lines. "

So some readers do get passed all the Palinazi crap you're spouting and manage to read serious discussions where your poisonous antisemitic presence isn't a hindrance to them.

Really. works on the Sabath? Or is that tomorrow? You know, fresca, over there in Palestine, in your iron lung, bitter and feeling somewhat empowered by the menace you try to portray, is this your method of' 'therapy'?

Anyway...What were you typing..let's see, oh yes... your meme is weak 'Palinazi' while mine, zionazi, is such a wonderful fit. At * so * many levels. [Rolls off the tongue, so to speak. Look up it's usage, and you'll see what I mean.
:>) ]
Good going.

>But what happens when an Indymedia site actually follows nessie's suggests on the best way to run an Indymedia site?

Better quality content. Better quality readers.

If all we wanted was a lot of hits, we'd run stories on celebrity sex. We don't want a lot of hits. We want the right hits. The internet is not about broadcasting. It's about narrowcasting. We are reaching exactly whom we wish to reach, and have consciously driven the rest (gehrig fans, for example) away.

We publish only content that is of interest to the kind of people we want to talk to. Everybody else can go somewhere else.

See:

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1722251_comment.php#1728281

sheepdog: "then ( blink blink ) people"

... run away in droves. Did you even look at that last graphic? You do know how to read graphs, don't you? That's SF-IMC readership, the red line, helplessly glued to "indistinguishable from zero for the last three months." That's not just _some_ SF-IMC readers going way, or even the _majority_ of SF-IMC readers going away, that's _damned near all_ SF-IMC readers going away, thanks to nessie's policies.

At first, of course, after the SF collective split, he tried to deny he was bleeding readers. When it became undeniable, he then came up with the bogus excuse he uses now: oh, well, I only chased away the bad guys. But, as you can see, that must mean that virtually every single person who read SF-IMC before nessie took it over must have been a bad guy.

Of course, it's not outside the realm of nessie's psychopathy for him to _believe_ that nearly every former SF-IMC was a bad guy; after all, he has no trouble believing that 99.5% of American Jews are racists, thanks to the same psychopathology.

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we want *smart* readers. We got 'em. If all you want for you own site is a lot of readers, write about Paris and Britney.

>he has no trouble believing that 99.5% of American Jews are racists

This is another Zionist lie. I have questioned that statistic many, many times. No, I don't take gehrig's word for it. He knows that, but he lies through his teeth about it. But in any event, it doesn't matter how many of any particular group happen to be racists, but that they happen to be racist at all. I hate all racists. I don't care if they are Jews or not. To care whether they are Jews or not is racist by definition. Gehrig cares whether a racist is Jewish or not. Ergo, he is a racist. You should hate him as much as you do David Duke. Anything less is immoral.

I post there some times.
nessie and myself have disagreed on this very issue, but he does a fine job of garbage control.
Different sites have different participation levels and the collective here is open to *rational* input. Bless them. Your crew abuses this leniency to the very limit you think you can get away with. And then some.

You've managed to come up with an original word today! A euphemism for "keeping out those filthy untermenschen who don't hew the party line".

nessie, captain of the SF-IMC ("Indymedia's0 Marie Celeste"): "We don't want *many* readers"

Kinda sums it up, don't it. Readers? Who needs 'em, as long as nessie can pound his chest about how ideologically pure he is. But there's a flaw there, and even nessie knows it -- all the chest-pounding in the world doesn't make any difference if nobody reads it. That's why he has to do his chest-pounding in OTHER IMCs; he knows that if he only did it in SF-IMC, nobody'd ever see it.

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nessie: "This is another Zionist lie. "

Ah, so now you're backpedalling?

You've declared that anyone who thinks Israel has a right to exist is a racist. I've given you the URL to a 2003 poll showning that 99.5% of American Jews believe Israel has a right to exist. You have never quibbled with the poll data, choosing other forms of word games instead. You have been given dozens of opportunities to say "I don't believe 99.5% of American Jews are racist." Yet you've never been able to. You've painted yourself into a corner, and all your thrashing and gnashing hasn't changed a damned thing: you've demonstrated that you think 99.5% of American Jews are racist.

But now, since you're on a different IMC, you're going to try to pretend that this _isn't_ your stance. Well, there's a very simple way to do that. That is to say this: "I don't believe 99.5% of American Jews are racist." That would be very easy to do. Your inability to do so says everything there is to say on the subject -- the subject being "nessie's overt antisemitism."

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I said no such thing. Au contrair, i said we want specific readers. That's quite a different thing. Gehrig knows this, but he has so little respect for your intelligence that he thinks you wont notice. This is the typical hubris of all those besotted with the delusion of being the master race.

>say this: "I don't believe 99.5% of American Jews are racist."

I said no such thing. I said, and I continue to say, that I don't know how many American Jews are racist. More important, I don't care. I hate all racists. How many they are doesn't matter. neither does their ethnicity. A racist is a racist is a racist. Throw them all out.

He said no such thing, but he did imply it. He only wants unwitting readers. That's quite a small difference. He knows this, but he has so much contempt for your intelligence that he thinks you wont notice. This is the typical hubris of all those besotted with the delusion of being the master race.

>say this: "I don't believe 99.5% of American Jews are racist."

He did say such a thing. He also says, and he'll continue to say, that he doesn't know how many American Jews are racist. More important, he pretends not to care. He hates all racists except anti-Jewish racists. How many they are doesn't matter. neither does their ethnicity. A racist is a racist is a racist. Throw them all out. Also nessie.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=http://www.sfimc.net/&y=r&url=http://www.indybay.org/#top

Wow. If Indybay is on life support, its clear that SF IMC is flat-lined. Literally and figuratively. The readership line rarely bleeps above 0. No wonder Patrich trolls other Imc trying to direct traffic back to his site. I have an idea- why don't you try banner ads on David Duke or Stormfronts website? That'll get you hte readership you deserve.

Tia

nessie: "that I don't know how many American Jews are racist"

You think that every one of them who believes the Israelis have the right to their own state is a racist, and you know that this covers the vast, vast majority of American Jews. Hell, if the Zogby poll I cite is off by a factor of 10, you're _still_ talking about 90% of American Jews being "racist" by your definition.

Because you know the absurdity of this position, you have to fall to one of two dodges -- either the "oh the numbers are all too murky" dodge, AKA the Bush Administration on global warming, or the "attack the attacker" dodge AKA the Karl Rove Reflex -- in order to get away from the fact that you believe that nearly every Jew in America is a racist.

And you've been thrashing and gnashing for a year trying to get out of this corner you've painted yourself into, and you just can't do it.

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SF-IMC is for a very select group of people. There are only a few thousand regular readers, but that's enough, because they are important in the political scheme of things, not because of how many they are, but because of who they are. They are activists and they are influential.

That's why the Zionist propaganda mill puts so much time and effort into attacking SF-IMC. If they honestly believed it was irrelevant they would just ignore it. That they do not, proves how important they really think it is.

Gehrig himself demonstrates how important he thinks it is, by the sheer volume on bits he devotes to the subject. There is no surer proof of how important someone thinks a subject is than the amount of time they spend on it. Gehrig spends a *lot* of time on the subject of SF-IMC, and on "nessie" in particular.

In case you're interested, here's what he does in Indymedia that does *not* concern nessie, Israel or Zionism:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?K5912506B

nessie's trying everything he can to get your mind off the very simple point -- demonstrated above, yet again -- that he considers nearly every Jew in America "racist."

What do you call someone who hates nearly every Jew in America?

If you're nessie, you call him "myself." If you're not insane or sociopathic, though, you call him "a raging antisemite."

Yet he's the very guy who thinks its his duty to lead the Indymedia movement into the future.

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That depends entirely on why you hate them. If you hate them because they are jews, you are an anti-Semite. If you hate them for some other reason, you are not.

What do you call someone who thinks we should not hate racists who happen to be Jewish?

Hint: It starts with an "R"

imc is getting more and more retarded. who can there be so many crack pot stories like this on here? whats the point? the illuminati likes poetry? who gives a shit. whats the "secret code" in it? who cares if someone painted two pics that kinda look the same....you can see similiarity in anything if you look hard enough. theres no REAL evedence of any conspiracy here.....just some goof ball's lame idea. and the crummy debate between most of you people on here is pretty lame also. more zionist not zionist 5th grade name calling. imc is getting rediculous and seemingly more ignorant by the day. quite sad really.

Simple solution: throw the racists out

nessie: "throw the racists out."

Let's begin with nessie, who's busily defending David Duke in another thread, and somehow magically doesn't think that hating nearly every Jew in America is a sign of, you know, antisemitism.

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He's lying. I'm not "defending David Duke." I'm defending the truth. Gehrig told yet another lie. This one happened to be about David Duke. It could have been about anything. He lies about a great many subjects. I called him on it. Caught red handed in yet another lie, he told another one on top of it, in hopes of distracting you. How typical.

But that's off topic, too. Perhaps gehrig would like to start a thread about anti-Semitism and stop usong the subject to disrupt this thread.

Don't hold your breath.

nessie is lying. He was defending David Duke. He was not defending the truth. Gehrig told yet another truth. This one happened to be about David Duke. It could have been about anything. nessie lies about a great many subjects. Gehrig called him on it. Caught red handed in yet another lie, nessie told another one on top of it, in hopes of distracting us. How typical.

But that's off topic, too. Perhaps nessie would like to start a thread about changing the subject and stop using the lies to disrupt this thread.

Don't hold your breath.

The more they act out in public, the worse they look.

Don't drink and post, nessie.

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It's a way to change the subject.

... says the very same "anti-racist" who was just caught in an abject lie to defend the honor of David Duke, and can't imagine for the life of him why any _real_ anti-racist would have a problem with that.

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an anti-Semite is a racist, but a pro-Semite is not.

A Zionist is someone who believes that an anti-Semite is a racist, but a pro-Semite is not.

Don't like it when you're caught lying to defend David Duke? Here's an idea: don't do it.

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You should hate him as much as you do David Duke. Anything less is immoral.

nessie: "You should hate him as much as you do David Duke."

After all, I'm an American Jew, and nessie thinks 99.5% of American Jews are like David Duke. He thinks _you_ should hate 99.5% of American Jews. Why? Because that's what's demanded by his utterly perverse rendition of what being an "anti-racist" means.

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You should hate 100% of all racists, and not care whether they are Jews or not. If you care whether they are Jews or not, you yourself are a racist.

You should hate 100% of all racists, including anti-Zionists, and not care whether they are Jews or not. If you care whether they are Jews or not, you yourself are a racist.

What is all this talk about Zionism? I mentioned the Illuminati. If you think I am misguided in my views, that's fine. I am open to being corrected, but please do not misappropriate my comments. I do not equate the Illuminati with Zionists. Never have and never will. As far as I am concerned, the Illuminati are not confined to a specific culture or race. David Icke seems to think the Illuminati bloodline families have the bloodline of an extra terrestrial race called the Annunaki. This is something that must be proven. I respect Mr. Icke's opinion, but I am not sure if I share his view. Please read the follow-up article on Shakespeare:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/160514.php

People who do stuff like this can't be trusted to be telling the truth about anything.

People who say things like this can't be trusted to be telling the truth about anything.

When they can't refute what you say, they try to drown you out.

It seems that they've been saying the same thing (ad hominem accusations back and forth) for years on end. Just get it over with and get a room. Total waste of bandwith.

When he can't refute what you say, he tries to drown you out and eject you.

"It seems that they've been saying the same thing (ad hominem accusations back and forth) for years on end. "

And, once again, who is it who has a gun to your head and is forcing you to read it against your will?

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Chapter 1
Exodus, chapter 1


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1: These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
2: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3: Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun, and Benjamin,
4: Dan and Naph'tali, Gad and Asher.
5: All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6: Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
7: But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.
8: Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9: And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
10: Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."
11: Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses.
12: But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
13: So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor,
14: and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.
15: Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiph'rah and the other Pu'ah,
16: "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live."
17: But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
18: So the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?"
19: The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwife comes to them."
20: So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong.
21: And because the midwives feared God he gave them families.
22: Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."


Chapter 2
Exodus, chapter 2


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1: Now a man from the house of Levi went and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2: The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3: And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.
4: And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.
5: Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it.
6: When she opened it she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
7: Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"
8: And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
9: And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
10: And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
11: One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
12: He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13: When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together; and he said to the man that did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
14: He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
15: When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Mid'ian; and he sat down by a well.
16: Now the priest of Mid'ian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17: The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18: When they came to their father Reu'el, he said, "How is it that you have come so soon today?"
19: They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and even drew water for us and watered the flock."
20: He said to his daughters, "And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
21: And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zippo'rah.
22: She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."
23: In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died. And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God.
24: And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25: And God saw the people of Israel, and God knew their condition.


Chapter 3
Exodus, chapter 3


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1: Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Mid'ian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2: And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
3: And Moses said, "I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt."
4: When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I."
5: Then he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground."
6: And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7: Then the LORD said, "I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,
8: and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.
9: And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
10: Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt."
11: But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?"
12: He said, "But I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain."
13: Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, `The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, `What is his name?' what shall I say to them?"
14: God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, `I AM has sent me to you.'"
15: God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, `The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you': this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
16: Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, `The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt;
17: and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, a land flowing with milk and honey."'
18: And they will hearken to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, `The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, we pray you, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'
19: I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.
20: So I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all the wonders which I will do in it; after that he will let you go.
21: And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty,
22: but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who sojourns in her house, jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; thus you shall despoil the Egyptians."


Chapter 4
Exodus, chapter 4


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1: Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, `The LORD did not appear to you.'"
2: The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."
3: And he said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
4: But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out your hand, and take it by the tail" -- so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand --
5: "that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
6: Again, the LORD said to him, "Put your hand into your bosom." And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
7: Then God said, "Put your hand back into your bosom." So he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
8: "If they will not believe you," God said, "or heed the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
9: If they will not believe even these two signs or heed your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it upon the dry ground; and the water which you shall take from the Nile will become blood upon the dry ground."
10: But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of tongue."
11: Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
12: Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak."
13: But he said, "Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other person."
14: Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
15: And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
16: He shall speak for you to the people; and he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.
17: And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs."
18: Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
19: And the LORD said to Moses in Mid'ian, "Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life are dead."
20: So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.
21: And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
22: And you shall say to Pharaoh, `Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son,
23: and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me"; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.'"
24: At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill him.
25: Then Zippo'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"
26: So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.
27: The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.
28: And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do.
29: Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.
30: And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31: And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.


Chapter 5
Exodus, chapter 5


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1: Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
2: But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should heed his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
3: Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray, a three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword."
4: But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get to your burdens."
5: And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens!"
6: The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,
7: "You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8: But the number of bricks which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, `Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.'
9: Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words."
10: So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, "Thus says Pharaoh, `I will not give you straw.
11: Go yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.'"
12: So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.
13: The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task, as when there was straw."
14: And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?"
15: Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, "Why do you deal thus with your servants?
16: No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, `Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
17: But he said, "You are idle, you are idle; therefore you say, `Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'
18: Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks."
19: The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in evil plight, when they said, "You shall by no means lessen your daily number of bricks."
20: They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came forth from Pharaoh;
21: and they said to them, "The LORD look upon you and judge, because you have made us offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."
22: Then Moses turned again to the LORD and said, "O LORD, why hast thou done evil to this people? Why didst thou ever send me?
23: For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has done evil to this people, and thou hast not delivered thy people at all."


Chapter 6
Exodus, chapter 6


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1: But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, yea, with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."
2: And God said to Moses, "I am the LORD.
3: I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
4: I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they dwelt as sojourners.
5: Moreover I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold in bondage and I have remembered my covenant.
6: Say therefore to the people of Israel, `I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment,
7: and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8: And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"
9: Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage.
10: And the LORD said to Moses,
11: "Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land."
12: But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips?"
13: But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a charge to the people of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14: These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
15: The sons of Simeon: Jemu'el, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
16: These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merar'i, the years of the life of Levi being a hundred and thirty-seven years.
17: The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shim'e-i, by their families.
18: The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uz'ziel, the years of the life of Kohath being a hundred and thirty-three years.
19: The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
20: Amram took to wife Joch'ebed his father's sister and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being one hundred and thirty-seven years.
21: The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
22: And the sons of Uz'ziel: Mi'sha-el, Elza'phan, and Sithri.
23: Aaron took to wife Eli'sheba, the daughter of Ammin'adab and the sister of Nahshon; and she bore him Nadab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar.
24: The sons of Korah: Assir, Elka'nah, and Abi'asaph; these are the families of the Ko'rahites.
25: Elea'zar, Aaron's son, took to wife one of the daughters of Pu'ti-el; and she bore him Phin'ehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites by their families.
26: These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said: "Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts."
27: It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.
28: On the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
29: the LORD said to Moses, "I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you."
30: But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me?"


Chapter 7
Exodus, chapter 7


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1: And the LORD said to Moses, "See, I make you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
2: You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.
3: But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
4: Pharaoh will not listen to you; then I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my hosts, my people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
5: And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them."
6: And Moses and Aaron did so; they did as the LORD commanded them.
7: Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8: And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
9: "When Pharaoh says to you, `Prove yourselves by working a miracle,' then you shall say to Aaron, `Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.'"
10: So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD commanded; Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
11: Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.
12: For every man cast down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
13: Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.
14: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.
15: Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; wait for him by the river's brink, and take in your hand the rod which was turned into a serpent.
16: And you shall say to him, `The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; and behold, you have not yet obeyed."
17: Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod that is in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood,
18: and the fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile shall become foul, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile."'"
19: And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, `Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
20: Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile, and all the water that was in the Nile turned to blood.
21: And the fish in the Nile died; and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
22: But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.
23: Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not lay even this to heart.
24: And all the Egyptians dug round about the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.
25: Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.


Chapter 8
Exodus, chapter 8


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1: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2: But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs;
3: the Nile shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house, and into your bedchamber and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and of your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls;
4: the frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants."'"
5: And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, `Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come upon the land of Egypt!'"
6: So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
7: But the magicians did the same by their secret arts, and brought frogs upon the land of Egypt.
8: Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat the LORD to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."
9: Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to command me when I am to entreat, for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."
10: And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Be it as you say, that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
11: The frogs shall depart from you and your houses and your servants and your people; they shall be left only in the Nile."
12: So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried to the LORD concerning the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.
13: And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; the frogs died out of the houses and courtyards and out of the fields.
14: And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
15: But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.
16: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, `Stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"
17: And they did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there came gnats on man and beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.
18: The magicians tried by their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.
19: And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.
20: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and wait for Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
21: Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
22: But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there; that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
23: Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. By tomorrow shall this sign be."'"
24: And the LORD did so; there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the flies.
25: Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."
26: But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so; for we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God offerings abominable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
27: We must go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he will command us."
28: So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make entreaty for me."
29: Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal falsely again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."
30: So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.
31: And the LORD did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.
32: But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.


Chapter 9
Exodus, chapter 9


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1: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2: For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
3: behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your cattle which are in the field, the horses, the asses, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
4: But the LORD will make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt, so that nothing shall die of all that belongs to the people of Israel."'"
5: And the LORD set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land."
6: And on the morrow the LORD did this thing; all the cattle of the Egyptians died, but of the cattle of the people of Israel not one died.
7: And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the cattle of the Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
8: And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes from the kiln, and let Moses throw them toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9: And it shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt."
10: So they took ashes from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw them toward heaven, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.
11: And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.
12: But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them; as the LORD had spoken to Moses.
13: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
14: For this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants and your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
15: For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
16: but for this purpose have I let you live, to show you my power, so that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
17: You are still exalting yourself against my people, and will not let them go.
18: Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
19: Now therefore send, get your cattle and all that you have in the field into safe shelter; for the hail shall come down upon every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home, and they shall die."'"
20: Then he who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his slaves and his cattle flee into the houses;
21: but he who did not regard the word of the LORD left his slaves and his cattle in the field.
22: And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man and beast and every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."
23: Then Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt;
24: there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25: The hail struck down everything that was in the field throughout all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and the hail struck down every plant of the field, and shattered every tree of the field.
26: Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, there was no hail.
27: Then Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
28: Entreat the LORD; for there has been enough of this thunder and hail; I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
29: Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
30: But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God."
31: (The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
32: But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they are late in coming up.)
33: So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and stretched out his hands to the LORD; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
34: But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
35: So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken through Moses.


Chapter 10
Exodus, chapter 10


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1: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them,
2: and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your son's son how I have made sport of the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them; that you may know that I am the LORD."
3: So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, `How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
4: For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
5: and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land; and they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours which grows in the field,
6: and they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.'" Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
7: And Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God; do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?"
8: So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh; and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are to go?"
9: And Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD."
10: And he said to them, "The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.
11: No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desire." And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left."
13: So Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
14: And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt, and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever shall be again.
15: For they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16: Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
17: Now therefore, forgive my sin, I pray you, only this once, and entreat the LORD your God only to remove this death from me."
18: So he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.
19: And the LORD turned a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.
20: But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
21: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt."
22: So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
23: they did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place for three days; but all the people of Israel had light where they dwelt.
24: Then Pharaoh called Moses, and said, "Go, serve the LORD; your children also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind."
25: But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
26: Our cattle also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there."
27: But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
28: Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take heed to yourself; never see my face again; for in the day you see my face you shall die."
29: Moses said, "As you say! I will not see your face again."


Chapter 11
Exodus, chapter 11


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1: The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
2: Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, jewelry of silver and of gold."
3: And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.
4: And Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go forth in the midst of Egypt;
5: and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the first-born of the cattle.
6: And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever shall be again.
7: But against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, not a dog shall growl; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
8: And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down to me, saying, `Get you out, and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
9: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
10: Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.


Chapter 12
Exodus, chapter 12


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1: The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2: "This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.
3: Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
4: and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
5: Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats;
6: and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening.
7: Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them.
8: They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9: Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
10: And you shall let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
11: In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's passover.
12: For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
13: The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14: "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.
15: Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses, for if any one eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
16: On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work shall be done on those days; but what every one must eat, that only may be prepared by you.
17: And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as an ordinance for ever.
18: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
19: For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
20: You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread."
21: Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover lamb.
22: Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood which is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23: For the LORD will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to slay you.
24: You shall observe this rite as an ordinance for you and for your sons for ever.
25: And when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.
26: And when your children say to you, `What do you mean by this service?'
27: you shall say, `It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28: Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29: At midnight the LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.
30: And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where one was not dead.
31: And he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, go forth from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.
32: Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
33: And the Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, "We are all dead men."
34: So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their mantles on their shoulders.
35: The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked of the Egyptians jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing;
36: and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they despoiled the Egyptians.
37: And the people of Israel journeyed from Ram'eses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
38: A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very many cattle, both flocks and herds.
39: And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions.
40: The time that the people of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
41: And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42: It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.
43: And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the passover: no foreigner shall eat of it;
44: but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.
45: No sojourner or hired servant may eat of it.
46: In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth any of the flesh outside the house; and you shall not break a bone of it.
47: All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48: And when a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
49: There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you."
50: Thus did all the people of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
51: And on that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.


Chapter 13
Exodus, chapter 13


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1: The LORD said to Moses,
2: "Consecrate to me all the first-born; whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine."
3: And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place; no leavened bread shall be eaten.
4: This day you are to go forth, in the month of Abib.
5: And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
6: Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
7: Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.
8: And you shall tell your son on that day, `It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'
9: And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
10: You shall therefore keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.
11: "And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,
12: you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstlings of your cattle that are males shall be the LORD's.
13: Every firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem.
14: And when in time to come your son asks you, `What does this mean?' you shall say to him, `By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
15: For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man and the first-born of cattle. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all the males that first open the womb; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.'
16: It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes; for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt."
17: When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt."
18: But God led the people round by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.
19: And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, "God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here."
20: And they moved on from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
21: And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night;
22: the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.


Chapter 14
Exodus, chapter 14


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1: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2: "Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-ha-hi'roth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Ba'al-ze'phon; you shall encamp over against it, by the sea.
3: For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, `They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.'
4: And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD." And they did so.
5: When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
6: So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,
7: and took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
8: And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he pursued the people of Israel as they went forth defiantly.
9: The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-ha-hi'roth, in front of Ba'al-ze'phon.
10: When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were in great fear. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD;
11: and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, in bringing us out of Egypt?
12: Is not this what we said to you in Egypt, `Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness."
13: And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
14: The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be still."
15: The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.
16: Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea.
17: And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.
18: And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
19: Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,
20: coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one coming near the other all night.
21: Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22: And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
23: The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24: And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians,
25: clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians."
26: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen."
27: So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28: The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained.
29: But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
30: Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
31: And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.


Chapter 15
Exodus, chapter 15


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1: Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
2: The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
3: The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.
4: "Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.
5: The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
6: Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.
7: In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.
8: At the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
9: The enemy said, `I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
10: Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11: "Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
12: Thou didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13: "Thou hast led in thy steadfast love the people whom thou hast redeemed, thou hast guided them by thy strength to thy holy abode.
14: The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia.
15: Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
16: Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as a stone, till thy people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased.
17: Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own mountain, the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thy abode, the sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have established.
18: The LORD will reign for ever and ever."
19: For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
20: Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing.
21: And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
22: Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur; they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
23: When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.
24: And the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
25: And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them,
26: saying, "If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD, your healer."
27: Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water.


Chapter 16
Exodus, chapter 16


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1: They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
2: And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
3: and said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
4: Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
5: On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily."
6: So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, "At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
7: and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. For what are we, that you murmur against us?"
8: And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your murmurings which you murmur against him -- what are we? Your murmurings are no

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Chapter 1
1 Kings, chapter 1


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1: Now King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
2: Therefore his servants said to him, "Let a young maiden be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait upon the king, and be his nurse; let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may be warm."
3: So they sought for a beautiful maiden throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite, and brought her to the king.
4: The maiden was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.
5: Now Adoni'jah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king"; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
6: His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man; and he was born next after Ab'salom.
7: He conferred with Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah and with Abi'athar the priest; and they followed Adoni'jah and helped him.
8: But Zadok the priest, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shim'e-i, and Re'i, and David's mighty men were not with Adoni'jah.
9: Adoni'jah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fatlings by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-ro'gel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,
10: but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benai'ah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.
11: Then Nathan said to Bathshe'ba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard that Adoni'jah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?
12: Now therefore come, let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
13: Go in at once to King David, and say to him, `Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your maidservant, saying, "Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne"? Why then is Adoni'jah king?'
14: Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words."
15: So Bathshe'ba went to the king into his chamber (now the king was very old, and Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite was ministering to the king).
16: Bathshe'ba bowed and did obeisance to the king, and the king said, "What do you desire?"
17: She said to him, "My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God, saying, `Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.'
18: And now, behold, Adoni'jah is king, although you, my lord the king, do not know it.
19: He has sacrificed oxen, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abi'athar the priest, and Jo'ab the commander of the army; but Solomon your servant he has not invited.
20: And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21: Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders."
22: While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
23: And they told the king, "Here is Nathan the prophet." And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.
24: And Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you said, `Adoni'jah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne'?
25: For he has gone down this day, and has sacrificed oxen, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, Jo'ab the commander of the army, and Abi'athar the priest; and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, `Long live King Adoni'jah!'
26: But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and your servant Solomon, he has not invited.
27: Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"
28: Then King David answered, "Call Bathshe'ba to me." So she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
29: And the king swore, saying, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity,
30: as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, `Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead'; even so will I do this day."
31: Then Bathshe'ba bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "May my lord King David live for ever!"
32: King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada." So they came before the king.
33: And the king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon;
34: and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet, and say, `Long live King Solomon!'
35: You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah."
36: And Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada answered the king, "Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say so.
37: As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David."
38: So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites, went down and caused Solomon to ride on King David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
39: There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
40: And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.
41: Adoni'jah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Jo'ab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "What does this uproar in the city mean?"
42: While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abi'athar the priest came; and Adoni'jah said, "Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news."
43: Jonathan answered Adoni'jah, "No, for our lord King David has made Solomon king;
44: and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule;
45: and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon; and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
46: Solomon sits upon the royal throne.
47: Moreover the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, `Your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.' And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
48: And the king also said, `Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted one of my offspring to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.'"
49: Then all the guests of Adoni'jah trembled, and rose, and each went his own way.
50: And Adoni'jah feared Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
51: And it was told Solomon, "Behold, Adoni'jah fears King Solomon; for, lo, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, `Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not slay his servant with the sword.'"
52: And Solomon said, "If he prove to be a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die."
53: So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and did obeisance to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house."


Chapter 2
1 Kings, chapter 2


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1: When David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying,
2: "I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,
3: and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;
4: that the LORD may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, `If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.'
5: "Moreover you know also what Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Ama'sa the son of Jether, whom he murdered, avenging in time of peace blood which had been shed in war, and putting innocent blood upon the girdle about my loins, and upon the sandals on my feet.
6: Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
7: But deal loyally with the sons of Barzil'lai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Ab'salom your brother.
8: And there is also with you Shim'e-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahu'rim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahana'im; but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, `I will not put you to death with the sword.'
9: Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol."
10: Then David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
11: And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
12: So Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was firmly established.
13: Then Adoni'jah the son of Haggith came to Bathshe'ba the mother of Solomon. And she said, "Do you come peaceably?" He said, "Peaceably."
14: Then he said, "I have something to say to you." She said, "Say on."
15: He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign; however the kingdom has turned about and become my brother's, for it was his from the LORD.
16: And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Say on."
17: And he said, "Pray ask King Solomon -- he will not refuse you -- to give me Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite as my wife."
18: Bathshe'ba said, "Very well; I will speak for you to the king."
19: So Bathshe'ba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adoni'jah. And the king rose to meet her, and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a seat brought for the king's mother; and she sat on his right.
20: Then she said, "I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her, "Make your request, my mother; for I will not refuse you."
21: She said, "Let Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite be given to Adoni'jah your brother as his wife."
22: King Solomon answered his mother, "And why do you ask Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite for Adoni'jah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother, and on his side are Abi'athar the priest and Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah."
23: Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adoni'jah his life!
24: Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me, and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adoni'jah shall be put to death this day."
25: So King Solomon sent Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada; and he struck him down, and he died.
26: And to Abi'athar the priest the king said, "Go to An'athoth, to your estate; for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all the affliction of my father."
27: So Solomon expelled Abi'athar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28: When the news came to Jo'ab -- for Jo'ab had supported Adoni'jah although he had not supported Ab'salom -- Jo'ab fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
29: And when it was told King Solomon, "Jo'ab has fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar," Solomon sent Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, saying, "Go, strike him down."
30: So Benai'ah came to the tent of the LORD, and said to him, "The king commands, `Come forth.'" But he said, "No, I will die here." Then Benai'ah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Jo'ab, and thus he answered me."
31: The king replied to him, "Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him; and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood which Jo'ab shed without cause.
32: The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds upon his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and slew with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Ama'sa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
33: So shall their blood come back upon the head of Jo'ab and upon the head of his descendants for ever; but to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD for evermore."
34: Then Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada went up, and struck him down and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
35: The king put Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada over the army in place of Jo'ab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abi'athar.
36: Then the king sent and summoned Shim'e-i, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and do not go forth from there to any place whatever.
37: For on the day you go forth, and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die; your blood shall be upon your own head."
38: And Shim'e-i said to the king, "What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." So Shim'e-i dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
39: But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shim'e-i's slaves ran away to Achish, son of Ma'acah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shim'e-i, "Behold, your slaves are in Gath,"
40: Shim'e-i arose and saddled an ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; Shim'e-i went and brought his slaves from Gath.
41: And when Solomon was told that Shim'e-i had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and returned,
42: the king sent and summoned Shim'e-i, and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD, and solemnly admonish you, saying, `Know for certain that on the day you go forth and go to any place whatever, you shall die'? And you said to me, `What you say is good; I obey.'
43: Why then have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the commandment with which I charged you?"
44: The king also said to Shim'e-i, "You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to David my father; so the LORD will bring back your evil upon your own head.
45: But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever."
46: Then the king commanded Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.


Chapter 3
1 Kings, chapter 3


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1: Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.
2: The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.
3: Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burnt incense at the high places.
4: And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar.
5: At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."
6: And Solomon said, "Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to thy servant David my father, because he walked before thee in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward thee; and thou hast kept for him this great and steadfast love, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne this day.
7: And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.
8: And thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.
9: Give thy servant therefore an understanding mind to govern thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to govern this thy great people?"
10: It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.
11: And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,
12: behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
13: I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.
14: And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."
15: And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
16: Then two harlots came to the king, and stood before him.
17: The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.
18: Then on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also gave birth; and we were alone; there was no one else with us in the house, only we two were in the house.
19: And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it.
20: And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
21: When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I looked at it closely in the morning, behold, it was not the child that I had borne."
22: But the other woman said, "No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours." The first said, "No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine." Thus they spoke before the king.
23: Then the king said, "The one says, `This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead'; and the other says, `No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.'"
24: And the king said, "Bring me a sword." So a sword was brought before the king.
25: And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."
26: Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means slay it." But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it."
27: Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means slay it; she is its mother."
28: And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered; and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him, to render justice.


Chapter 4
1 Kings, chapter 4


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1: King Solomon was king over all Israel,
2: and these were his high officials: Azari'ah the son of Zadok was the priest;
3: Elihor'eph and Ahi'jah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was recorder;
4: Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abi'athar were priests;
5: Azari'ah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend;
6: Ahi'shar was in charge of the palace; and Adoni'ram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
7: Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each man had to make provision for one month in the year.
8: These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of E'phraim;
9: Ben-deker, in Makaz, Sha-al'bim, Beth-she'mesh, and E'lonbeth-ha'nan;
10: Ben-hesed, in Arub'both (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);
11: Ben-abin'adab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
12: Ba'ana the son of Ahi'lud, in Ta'anach, Megid'do, and all Beth-she'an which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-she'an to A'bel-meho'lah, as far as the other side of Jok'meam;
13: Ben-geber, in Ra'moth-gil'ead (he had the villages of Ja'ir the son of Manas'seh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
14: Ahin'adab the son of Iddo, in Mahana'im;
15: Ahi'ma-az, in Naph'tali (he had taken Bas'emath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
16: Ba'ana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
17: Jehosh'aphat the son of Paru'ah, in Is'sachar;
18: Shim'e-i the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
19: Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one officer in the land of Judah.
20: Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.
21: Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphra'tes to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
22: Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, and sixty cors of meal,
23: ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.
24: For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphra'tes from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphra'tes; and he had peace on all sides round about him.
25: And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.
26: Solomon also had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
27: And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each one in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
28: Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his charge.
29: And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and largeness of mind like the sand on the seashore,
30: so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
31: For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ez'rahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
32: He also uttered three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
33: He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.
34: And men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.


Chapter 5
1 Kings, chapter 5


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1: Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father; for Hiram always loved David.
2: And Solomon sent word to Hiram,
3: "You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
4: But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.
5: And so I purpose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, `Your son, whom I will set upon your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.'
6: Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me; and my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set; for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sido'nians."
7: When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people."
8: And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me; I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.
9: My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon; and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it; and you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household."
10: So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,
11: while Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty thousand cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
12: And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and the two of them made a treaty.
13: King Solomon raised a levy of forced labor out of all Israel; and the levy numbered thirty thousand men.
14: And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in relays; they would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoni'ram was in charge of the levy.
15: Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country,
16: besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
17: At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
18: So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the hewing and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.


Chapter 6
1 Kings, chapter 6


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1: In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
2: The house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
3: The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
4: And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
5: He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running round the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.
6: The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
7: When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry; so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple, while it was being built.
8: The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house; and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.
9: So he built the house, and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
10: He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
11: Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon,
12: "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
13: And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."
14: So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15: He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
16: He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the rafters, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the most holy place.
17: The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
18: The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.
19: The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
20: The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high; and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also made an altar of cedar.
21: And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
22: And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
23: In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
24: Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
25: The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.
26: The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
27: He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; and the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
28: And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29: He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
30: The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.
31: For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts formed a pentagon.
32: He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; he overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim and upon the palm trees.
33: So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,
34: and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
35: On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied upon the carved work.
36: He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and one course of cedar beams.
37: In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.
38: And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.


Chapter 7
1 Kings, chapter 7


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1: Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
2: He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, and it was built upon three rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3: And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were upon the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.
4: There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.
5: All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
6: And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; there was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy before them.
7: And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment; it was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
8: His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
9: All these were made of costly stones, hewn according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the court of the house of the LORD to the great court.
10: The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.
11: And above were costly stones, hewn according to measurement, and cedar.
12: The great court had three courses of hewn stone round about, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the vestibule of the house.
13: And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
14: He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naph'tali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill, for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon, and did all his work.
15: He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference; it was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers; the second pillar was the same.
16: He also made two capitals of molten bronze, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
17: Then he made two nets of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals upon the tops of the pillars; a net for the one capital, and a net for the other capital.
18: Likewise he made pomegranates; in two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capital that was upon the top of the pillar; and he did the same with the other capital.
19: Now the capitals that were upon the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
20: The capitals were upon the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the network; there were two hundred pomegranates, in two rows round about; and so with the other capital.
21: He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin; and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Bo'az.
22: And upon the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.
23: Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
24: Under its brim were gourds, for thirty cubits, compassing the sea round about; the gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.
25: It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26: Its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.
27: He also made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
28: This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames
29: and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Upon the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.
30: Moreover each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; and at the four corners were supports for a laver. The supports were cast, with wreaths at the side of each.
31: Its opening was within a crown which projected upward one cubit; its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings; and its panels were square, not round.
32: And the four wheels were underneath the panels; the axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.
33: The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs, were all cast.
34: There were four supports at the four corners of each stand; the supports were of one piece with the stands.
35: And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.
36: And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.
37: After this manner he made the ten stands; all of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.
38: And he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver held forty baths, each laver measured four cubits, and there was a laver for each of the ten stands.
39: And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house; and he set the sea on the southeast corner of the house.
40: Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD:
41: the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;
42: and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;
43: the ten stands, and the ten lavers upon the stands;
44: and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.
45: Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the LORD, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.
46: In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
47: And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not found out.
48: So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,
49: the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
50: the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.
51: Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.


Chapter 8
1 Kings, chapter 8


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1: Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2: And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Eth'anim, which is the seventh month.
3: And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4: And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.
5: And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
6: Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
7: For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
8: And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; and they are there to this day.
9: There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10: And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD,
11: so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
12: Then Solomon said, "The LORD has set the sun in the heavens, but has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
13: I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever."
14: Then the king faced about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
15: And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,
16: `Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
17: Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
18: But the LORD said to David my father, `Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
19: nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'
20: Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise which he made; for I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
21: And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
22: Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
23: and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;
24: who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou didst declare to him; yea, thou didst speak with thy mouth, and with thy hand hast fulfilled it this day.
25: Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him, saying, `There shall never fail you a man before me to sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'
26: Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word be confirmed, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father.
27: "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
28: Yet have regard to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, hearkening to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee this day;
29: that thy eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which thou hast said, `My name shall be there,' that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place.
30: And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.
31: "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thine altar in this house,
32: then hear thou in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
33: "When thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, if they turn again to thee, and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house;
34: then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.
35: "When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and acknowledge thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them,
36: then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.
37: "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
38: whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house;
39: then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render to each whose heart thou knowest, according to all his ways (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men);
40: that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.
41: "Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for thy name's sake
42: (for they shall hear of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and of thy outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,
43: hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee; in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
44: "If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,
45: then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46: "If they sin against thee -- for there is no man who does not sin -- and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
47: yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captors, saying, `We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly';
48: if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
49: then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause
50: and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions which they have committed against thee; and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
51: (for they are thy people, and thy heritage, which thou didst bring out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).
52: Let thy eyes be open to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to thee.
53: For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thy heritage, as thou didst declare through Moses, thy servant, when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD."
54: Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven;
55: and he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56: "Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised; not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he uttered by Moses his servant.
57: The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; may he not leave us or forsake us;
58: that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
59: Let these words of mine, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires;
60: that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.
61: Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day."
62: Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
63: Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
64: The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
65: So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.
66: On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.


Chapter 9
1 Kings, chapter 9


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1: When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build,
2: the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3: And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, and put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
4: And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
5: then I will establish your royal throne over Israel for ever, as I promised David your father, saying, `There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.'
6: But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
7: then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
8: And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'
9: Then they will say, `Because they forsook the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the LORD has brought all this evil upon them.'"
10: At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house,
11: and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12: But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
13: Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.
14: Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15: And this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megid'do and Gezer
16: (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife;
17: so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-hor'on
18: and Ba'alath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
19: and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20: All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, who were not of the people of Israel --
21: their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly -- these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.
22: But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves; they were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
23: These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: five hundred and fifty, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
24: But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.
25: Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD, burning incense before the LORD. So he finished the house.
26: King Solomon built a fleet of ships at E'zion-ge'ber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27: And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon;
28: and they went to Ophir, and brought from there gold, to the amount of four hundred and twenty talents; and they brought it to King Solomon.


Chapter 10
1 Kings, chapter 10


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1: Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.
2: She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
3: And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her.
4: And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
5: the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.
6: And she said to the king, "The report was true which I heard in my own land of your affairs and of your wisdom,
7: but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half was not told me; your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report which I heard.
8: Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
9: Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel for ever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
10: Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones; never again came such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
11: Moreover the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
12: And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers; no such almug wood has come or been seen, to this day.
13: And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants.
14: Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
15: besides that which came from the traders and from the traffic of the merchants, and from all the kings of Arabia and from the governors of the land.
16: King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
17: And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
18: The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
19: The throne had six steps, and at the back of the throne was a calf's head, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,
20: while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.
21: All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
22: For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
23: Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
24: And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
25: Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
26: And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
27: And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephe'lah.
28: And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Ku'e, and the king's traders received them from Ku'e at a price.
29: A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.


Chapter 11
1 Kings, chapter 11


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1: Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, E'domite, Sido'nian, and Hittite women,
2: from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love.
3: He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
4: For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5: For Solomon went after Ash'toreth the goddess of the Sido'nians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6: So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.
7: Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
8: And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9: And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
10: and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD commanded.
11: Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and