Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2. He was twenty–five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty–nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3. And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done. 4. He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan. 5. He trusted in the LORD God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. 6. For he held fast to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses. 7. The LORD was with him; he prospered wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. 8. He subdued the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city. 9. Now it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. 10. And at the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is , the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11. Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12. because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do them . 13. And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14. Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay." And the king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15. So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16. At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17. Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. 18. And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. 19. Then the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What confidence is this in which you trust? 20. "You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? 21. "Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 22. "But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?"’ 23. "Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses––if you are able on your part to put riders on them! 24. "How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 25. "Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’" 26. Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it ; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." 27. But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?" 28. Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29. "Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand; 30. ‘nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."’ 31. "Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 32. ‘until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us." 33. ‘Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34. ‘Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 35. ‘Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’" 36. But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, "Do not answer him." 37. Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
1. Then he brought me into the sanctuary and measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side––the width of the tabernacle. 2. The width of the entryway was ten cubits, and the side walls of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on the other side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits. 3. Also he went inside and measured the doorposts, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits high ; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. 4. He measured the length, twenty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, beyond the sanctuary; and he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place ." 5. Next, he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side. 6. The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story; they rested on ledges which were for the side chambers all around, that they might be supported, but not fastened to the wall of the temple. 7. As one went up from story to story, the side chambers became wider all around, because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps; therefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one. 8. I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, a full rod, that is , six cubits high . 9. The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the temple. 10. And between it and the wall chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. 11. The doors of the side chambers opened on the terrace, one door toward the north and another toward the south; and the width of the terrace was five cubits all around. 12. The building that faced the separating courtyard at its western end was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. 13. So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separating courtyard with the building and its walls was one hundred cubits long; 14. also the width of the eastern face of the temple, including the separating courtyard, was one hundred cubits. 15. He measured the length of the building behind it, facing the separating courtyard, with its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inner temple and the porches of the court, 16. their doorposts and the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with wood from the ground to the windows––the windows were covered–– 17. from the space above the door, even to the inner room, as well as outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure. 18. And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Each cherub had two faces, 19. so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the other side; thus it was made throughout the temple all around. 20. From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the sanctuary, cherubim and palm trees were carved. 21. The doorposts of the temple were square, as was the front of the sanctuary; their appearance was similar. 22. The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its sides were of wood; and he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." 23. The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24. The doors had two panels apiece , two folding panels: two panels for one door and two panels for the other door . 25. Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the temple just as they were carved on the walls. A wooden canopy was on the front of the vestibule outside. 26. There were beveled window frames and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the vestibule––also on the side chambers of the temple and on the canopies.
1. Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2. (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3. He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4. But He needed to go through Samaria. 5. So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." 8. For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9. Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10. Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." 11. The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12. "Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?" 13. Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14. "but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." 15. The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." 16. Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 17. The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18. "for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly." 19. The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20. "Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship." 21. Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22. "You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23. "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." 25. The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things." 26. Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He ." 27. And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?" 28. The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29. "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 30. Then they went out of the city and came to Him.