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  • Ezekiel 44
    Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
    Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
    It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
    Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
    And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
    And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
    In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
    And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
    Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
    And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
    Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
    Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
    And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
    But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
    But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
    They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
    And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
    They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
    And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
    Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
    Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
    Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: bu
    6 min
  • 2nd Chronicles 9
    And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
    And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
    And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
    And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
    And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
    Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
    Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
    Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
    And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
    And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
    And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
    And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
    Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
    Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
    And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
    And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
    Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
    And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
    And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
    And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon 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 any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
    For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
    And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
    And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
    And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
    And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
    And he reigned over all the kings from the
    6 min
  • John 9,10
    And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
    And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
    Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
    I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
    As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
    When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
    And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
    The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
    Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
    Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
    He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
    Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
    They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
    And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
    Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
    Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
    They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
    But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
    And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
    His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
    But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
    These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
    Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
    Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
    He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
    Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
    He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
    Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
    We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
    The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
    Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
    Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
    If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
    They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
    Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
    He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
    And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with the
    10 min
  • Ezekiel 43
    Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
    And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
    And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
    And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
    So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
    And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
    And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
    In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
    Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
    Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
    And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
    This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
    And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
    And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
    So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
    And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
    And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
    And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
    And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
    And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
    Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
    And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
    When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, tho
    6 min
  • 2nd Chronicles 8
    And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
    That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
    And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
    And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
    Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
    And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
    As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
    But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
    But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
    And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
    And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
    Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
    Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
    And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
    And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
    Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
    Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
    And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
    4 min
  • 2nd Chronicles 7
    Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
    And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.
    And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
    Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
    And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
    And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
    Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
    Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
    And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
    And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
    Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
    And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
    If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
    If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
    Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
    For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
    And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
    Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
    But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
    Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
    And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
    And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
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  • John 8
    Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
    And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
    And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
    They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
    Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
    This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
    So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
    And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
    And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
    When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
    She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
    Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
    The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.
    Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
    Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
    And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
    It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
    I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
    Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
    These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
    Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
    Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
    And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
    I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
    Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
    I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
    They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
    Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
    And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
    As he spake these words, many believed on him.
    Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
    And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
    They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
    Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
    And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
    If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
    I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me,
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  • Ezekiel 42
    Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
    Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
    Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
    And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
    Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
    For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
    And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
    For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
    And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
    The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
    And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
    And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
    Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
    When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
    Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
    He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
    He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
    He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
    He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
    He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
    4 min
  • John 7
    After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
    Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
    His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
    For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
    For neither did his brethren believe in him.
    Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
    The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
    Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.
    When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
    But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
    Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
    And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
    Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
    Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
    And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
    Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
    If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
    He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
    Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
    The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
    Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
    Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
    If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
    Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
    Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
    But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
    Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
    Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
    But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
    Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
    And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
    The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
    Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
    Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
    Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
    What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
    In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
    He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
    (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that
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  • 2nd Chronicles 5,6
    Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
    Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
    Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
    And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
    And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
    Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
    And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
    For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
    And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
    And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
    Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
    It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
    So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
    Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
    But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
    And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
    And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
    Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
    But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
    Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
    But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
    Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
    The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have bui
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