BEHOLD, I will send my 9 Therefore have I also made and he delighteth in them; or, Where you contemptible and base before is the God of judgment? all the people, according as ye have CHAP. III. not kept my ways, but have been r partial in the law. messenger, and he shall prep 10 Have we not all one father? pare the way before me: and the hath not one God created us? why Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly do we deal treacherously every man come to his temple, even the mesagainst his brother, by profaning senger of the covenant, whom ye the covenant of our fathers? delight in: behold, he shall come, c 11 Judah hath dealt treache- saith the LORD of hosts. rously, and an abomination is com- E 2 But who may abide the day of mitted in Israel and in Jerusalem; his coming? and who shall stand for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. 4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto 13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with the LORD, as in the days of old, tears, with weeping, and with cry- and as in former years. ing out, insomuch that he regardeth p 5 And I will come near to you to not the offering any more, or re-judgment and I will be a swift ceiveth it with good will at your witness against the sorcerers, and hand. against the adulterers, and against i 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Be- false swearers, and against those cause the LORD hath been witness that oppress the hireling in his wabetween thee and the wife of thy ges, the widow, and the fatherless, youth, against whom thou hast dealt and that turn aside the stranger treacherously: yet is she thy com- from his right, and fear not me, panion, and the wife of thy cove-saith the LORD of hosts. nant. t 6 For 1 am the LORD, I change p 15 And did not he make one? not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are Yet had he the residue of the Spirit. not consumed. And wherefore one? That he might d 7 Even from the days of your seek a godly seed. Therefore take fathers ye are gone away from inine heed to your spirit, and let none ordinances, and have not kept them. deal treacherously against the wife Return unto me, and I will return of his youth. unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. 16 For the LORD, the God of Is- But ye said, Wherein shall we rerael, saith, that he hateth putting turn? away: for one covereth violence c8 Will a man rob God? Yet with his garment, saith the LORD of ye have robbed me. But ye say, hosts: therefore take heed to your Wherein have we robbed thee? In spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. tithes and offerings. 171 Ye have wearied the LORD 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: with your words. Yet ye say, for ye have robbed me, even this Wherein have we wearied him? whole nation. When ye say, Every one that doeth d 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the evil is good in the sight of the LORD, store-house, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now spare them, as a man spareth his herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, own son that serveth him. if I will not open you the windows 18 Then shall ye return and dis of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. cern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. CHAP. IV. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall notr destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. FOR behold, the day cometh, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it b 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delight- shall leave them neither root nor some land, saith the LORD of hosts. branch. c 131 Your words have been stout 62 11 But unto you that fear my against me, saith the LORD. Yet name, shall the Sun of righteousness ye say, What have we spoken so arise with healing in his wings; much against thee? and ye shall go forth, and grow up c" 14 Ye have said, It is vain to as calves of the stall. serve God: and what profit is it 3 And ye shall tread down the that we have kept his ordinance, wicked; for they shall be ashes unand that we have walked mourn-der the soles of your feet in the day fully before the LORD of hosts ? that I shall do this, saith the LORD 15 And now we call the proud of hosts. happy; yea, they that work wick-d 4 Remember ye the law of Moedness are set up; yea, they that ses my servant, which I commanded tempt God are even delivered. unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with c* 16 Then they that feared the the statutes and judgments. LORD spake often one to another: 5 Behold, I will send you Eliand the LORD hearkened, and jah the prophet before the coming of heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. b 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when lest I come and smite the earth with I make up my jewels; and I will a curse. the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, 1003 THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Joseph and his mistress, Pharaoh's dreams, Joseph's brethren in Egypt,. Joseph's policy to his brethren, Joseph presents his brethren, LEVITICUS. 5 4 NUMBERS. Law of the Nazarite, . CONTENTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 11 DEUTERONOMY. 12 Moses rehearseth God's promise, 1 14 Moses prayeth to see Canaan, 15 An exhortation to obedience, Death of Moses foretold, Vows not to be broken, Midianites spoiled, The Reubenites and Gadites proved, 14 Ephraim's inheritance, Chap. 16 David slayeth Goliath, Chap. 17 The lot of Manasseh, 17 Jonathan's love to David, 18 The lot of Benjamin, 18 Saul's jealousy of David, 19 The lot of Simeon, 19 David and Jonathan consult,. 20 Cities of refuge, &c. 20 David feigns himself mad, 21 God giveth Israel rest, 21 Nob destroyed, 22 23 24 25 26 The two tribes and half sent home, 22 Joshua's exhortation before his David rescueth Keilah, David spareth Saul, 23 The death of Samuel,. The Israelites fall into idolatry, The nations left to prove Israel, Deborah and Barak deliver Israel, 4 The Danites seek an inheritance, 18 Absalom's return, The Levite and his concubine, 19 Absalom's policy, The complaint of the Levite, 20 Shimei curseth David, |