12:1And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 12:2And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt, 12:3and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, 12:4Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee. 12:5And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
12:6And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people? 12:7And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever. 12:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him. 12:9And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter? 12:10And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou say unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou speak unto them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. 12:11And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day. 12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, 12:14and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 12:15So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of Jehovah, that he might establish his word, which Jehovah spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
12:16And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. 12:17But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 12:18Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to taskwork; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 12:19So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. 12:20And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
12:21And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 12:22But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 12:23Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying, 12:24Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened unto the word of Jehovah, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Jehovah.
12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel. 12:26And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return to the house of David: 12:27if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah. 12:28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 12:29And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 12:30And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 12:31And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi. 12:32And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made. 12:33And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to burn incense.
3:1Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe. 3:2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision: 3:3for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh: 3:4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 3:5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 3:6as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 3:7Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. 3:8Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith: 3:10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; 3:11if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead. 3:12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. 3:13Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 3:14I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 3:15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you: 3:16only, whereunto we have attained, by that same rule let us walk. 3:17Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample. 3:18For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 3:19whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 3:21who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
42:1Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north. 42:2Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 42:3Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story. 42:4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 42:5Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. 42:6For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 42:7And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 42:8For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits. 42:9And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court. 42:10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers. 42:11And the way before them was like the appearance of the way of the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their egresses were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 42:12And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 42:13Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that are near unto Jehovah shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy. 42:14When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertaineth to the people. 42:15Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. 42:16He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 42:17He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. 42:18He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 42:19He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 42:20He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
94:1O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,
Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
94:2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:
Render to the proud their desert.
94:3Jehovah, how long shall the wicked,
How long shall the wicked triumph?
94:4They prate, they speak arrogantly:
All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
94:5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,
And afflict thy heritage.
94:6They slay the widow and the sojourner,
And murder the fatherless.
94:7And they say, *Jehovah will not see,
Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
94:8Consider, ye brutish among the people;
And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
94:9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
94:10He that *chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,
Even he that teacheth man knowledge?
94:11Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man,
94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah,
And teachest out of thy law;
94:13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
94:14For Jehovah will not cast off his people,
Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
94:15For judgment shall return unto righteousness;
And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
94:16Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
94:17Unless Jehovah had been my help,
My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
94:18When I said, My foot slippeth;
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
94:19In the multitude of my *thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.
94:20Shall the *throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,
Which frameth mischief by statute?
94:21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
And condemn the innocent blood.
94:22But Jehovah hath been my high tower,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
94:23And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,
And will cut them off in their own wickedness;
Jehovah our God will cut them off.