Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he wanted to do, 2. that the LORD appeared to Solomon the 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 that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to put My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. 4. "Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, 5. "then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’ 6. " But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, 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 this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8. "And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ 9. "Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the LORD has brought all this calamity on them.’" 10. Now it happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king’s house 11. (Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12. Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him. 13. So he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are to this day. 14. Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold. 15. And this is the reason for the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16. (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, had killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.) 17. And Solomon built Gezer, Lower Beth Horon, 18. Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah , 19. all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for his chariots and cities for his cavalry, 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, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel–– 21. that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely––from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day. 22. But of the children of Israel Solomon made no forced laborers, because they were men of war and his servants: his officers, his captains, commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry. 23. Others were chiefs of the officials who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work. 24. But Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo. 25. Now three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for the LORD, and he burned incense with them on the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the temple. 26. King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27. Then Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the servants of Solomon. 28. And they went to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
1. "You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem. 2. "Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around. 3. "Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. 4. "Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5. "For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6. "And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year. 7. "Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8. "And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege. 9. "Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10. "And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11. "You shall also drink water by measure, one–sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink. 12. "And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight." 13. Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." 14. So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth." 15. Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it." 16. Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, 17. "that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.
1. "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber’s razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. 2. "You shall burn with fire one–third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one–third and strike around it with the sword, and one–third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them. 3. "You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment . 4. "Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel. 5. "Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her. 6. ‘She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’ 7. "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you’ –– 8. "therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. 9. ‘And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. 10. ‘Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. 11. ‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you ; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12. ‘One–third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one–third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13. ‘Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. 14. ‘Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15. ‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16. ‘When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread. 17. ‘So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.’"
1. Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, 3. how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him , 4. God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will? 5. For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. 6. But one testified in a certain place, saying: "What is man that You are mindful of him, Or the son of man that You take care of him? 7. You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And set him over the works of Your hands. 8. You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. 9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. 10. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12. saying: "I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You." 13. And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Here am I and the children whom God has given Me." 14. Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15. and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16. For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. 17. Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.