Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it , that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2. Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3. And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. 4. ‘It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’" 5. So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6. And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7. "Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."’" 8. Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish. 9. And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "Look, he has come out to make war with you." So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10. "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." 11. ‘Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered? 12. ‘Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13. ‘Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?’" 14. And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15. Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 16. "Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. 17. "Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 18. "and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands––wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. 19. "Now therefore, O LORD our God, I pray, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD God, You alone." 20. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard.’ 21. "This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin, the daughter of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back! 22. ‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. 23. By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, And said: "By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will enter the extremity of its borders, To its fruitful forest. 24. I have dug and drunk strange water, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense." 25. ‘Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. 26. Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown. 27. ‘But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me. 28. Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came. 29. ‘This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. 30. And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward. 31. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, And those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.’ 32. "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it. 33. By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,’ Says the LORD. 34. ‘For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’" 35. And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty–five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses––all dead. 36. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home , and remained at Nineveh. 37. Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
1. Then he brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber which was opposite the separating courtyard, and which was opposite the building toward the north. 2. Facing the length, which was one hundred cubits (the width was fifty cubits), was the north door. 3. Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits , and opposite the pavement of the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories . 4. In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north. 5. Now the upper chambers were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building. 6. For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper level was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up. 7. And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chambers, at the front of the chambers, toward the outer court; its length was fifty cubits. 8. The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits. 9. At the lower chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. 10. Also there were chambers in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separating courtyard and opposite the building. 11. There was a walk in front of them also, and their appearance was like the chambers which were toward the north; they were as long and as wide as the others, and all their exits and entrances were according to plan. 12. And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, as one enters them, there was a door in front of the walk, the way directly in front of the wall toward the east. 13. Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separating courtyard, are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall lay the most holy offerings––the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering––for the place is holy. 14. "When the priests enter them, they shall not go out of the holy chamber into the outer court; but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they may approach that which is for the people." 15. Now when he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out through the gateway that faces toward the east, and measured it all around. 16. He measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around. 17. He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around. 18. He measured the south side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod. 19. He came around to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod. 20. He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy areas from the common.
31. In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." 32. But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." 33. Therefore the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?" 34. Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35. "Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36. "And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37. "For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38. "I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors." 39. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ever did." 40. So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41. And many more believed because of His own word. 42. Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world." 43. Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. 44. For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45. So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast. 46. So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48. Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe." 49. The nobleman said to Him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!" 50. Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your son lives." So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51. And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him , saying, "Your son lives!" 52. Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." 53. So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." And he himself believed, and his whole household. 54. This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.