Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle , that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. 3. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, " Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4. Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. 5. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child." 6. Then David sent to Joab, saying , "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7. When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered. 8. And David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift of food from the king followed him. 9. But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10. So when they told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?" 11. And Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing." 12. Then David said to Uriah, "Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13. Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. 14. In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15. And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die." 16. So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17. Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 18. Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war, 19. and charged the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king, 20. if it happens that the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you: ‘Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21. ‘Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’ ––then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’" 22. So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him. 23. And the messenger said to David, "Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate. 24. "The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." 25. Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him." 26. When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27. And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
1. Now King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. 2. But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land gave heed to the words of the LORD which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. 3. And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "Pray now to the LORD our God for us." 4. Now Jeremiah was coming and going among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison. 5. Then Pharaoh’s army came up from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed from Jerusalem. 6. Then the word of the LORD came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 7. "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, Pharaoh’s army which has come up to help you will return to Egypt, to their own land. 8. "And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire."’ 9. "Thus says the LORD: ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely depart from us," for they will not depart. 10. ‘For though you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained only wounded men among them, they would rise up, every man in his tent, and burn the city with fire.’" 11. And it happened, when the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, 12. that Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to claim his property there among the people. 13. And when he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are defecting to the Chaldeans!" 14. Then Jeremiah said, "False! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans." But he did not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes. 15. Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison. 16. When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, 17. then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out . The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?" And Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon!" 18. Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, "What offense have I committed against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison? 19. "Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’? 20. "Therefore please hear now, O my lord the king. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there." 21. Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
11. Then He said: "A certain man had two sons. 12. "And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me .’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13. "And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 14. "But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 15. "Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16. "And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything . 17. "But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18. ‘I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19. "and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."’ 20. "And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21. "And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22. "But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23. ‘And bring the fatted calf here and kill it , and let us eat and be merry; 24. ‘for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry. 25. "Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26. "So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27. "And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’ 28. "But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 29. "So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 30. ‘But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’ 31. "And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 32. ‘It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’"