Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty–five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 3. For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4. He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name." 5. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6. Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 7. He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; 8. "and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers––only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." 9. But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. 10. And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, 11. "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols), 12. "therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. 13. ‘And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14. ‘So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies, 15. ‘because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’" 16. Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. 17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh––all that he did, and the sin that he committed–– are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18. So Manasseh rested with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon reigned in his place. 19. Amon was twenty–two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. 21. So he walked in all the ways that his father had walked; and he served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them. 22. He forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD. 23. Then the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house. 24. But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. 25. Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 26. And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then Josiah his son reigned in his place.
1. Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut. 2. And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. 3. " As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way." 4. Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell on my face. 5. And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary. 6. "Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "O house of Israel, let us have no more of all your abominations. 7. "When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it––My house––and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations. 8. "And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you." 9. ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel. 10. "And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. 11. "Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. 12. "Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have raised My hand in an oath against them," says the Lord GOD, "that they shall bear their iniquity. 13. "And they shall not come near Me to minister to Me as priest, nor come near any of My holy things, nor into the Most Holy Place ; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. 14. "Nevertheless I will make them keep charge of the temple, for all its work, and for all that has to be done in it. 15. "But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood," says the Lord GOD. 16. "They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall come near My table to minister to Me, and they shall keep My charge. 17. "And it shall be, whenever they enter the gates of the inner court, that they shall put on linen garments; no wool shall come upon them while they minister within the gates of the inner court or within the house. 18. "They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies; they shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat. 19. "When they go out to the outer court, to the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and put on other garments; and in their holy garments they shall not sanctify the people. 20. "They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; but they shall keep their hair well trimmed. 21. "No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22. "They shall not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman, but take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or widows of priests. 23. "And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24. "In controversy they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths. 25. "They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead person. Only for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister may they defile themselves. 26. "After he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him. 27. "And on the day that he goes to the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering in the inner court," says the Lord GOD. 28. "It shall be, in regard to their inheritance, that I am their inheritance. You shall give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. 29. "They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30. "The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest’s; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. 31. "The priests shall not eat anything, bird or beast, that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts .
24. "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. 25. "Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. 26. "For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27. "and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. 28. "Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29. "and come forth––those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. 30. "I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. 31. "If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. 32. "There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. 33. "You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34. "Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. 35. "He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. 36. "But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish––the very works that I do––bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. 37. "And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. 38. "But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. 39. "You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40. "But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. 41. "I do not receive honor from men. 42. "But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. 43. "I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44. "How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? 45. "Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you––Moses, in whom you trust. 46. "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47. "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"