Black History In The Bible | #BHITB
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1This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die. 2Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated. 3Give…
1O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee. 2Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee. 3For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly. 4O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now…
1Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda, 2To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass…
1And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon, 2In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it…
1A Prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach. I will thank thee, O Lord and King, and praise thee, O God my Saviour: I do give praise unto thy name: 2For thou art my defender and helper, and has preserved my body from destruction, and from the snare of the slanderous tongue, and from the…
1Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life repaired the house again, and in his days fortified the temple: 2And by him was built from the foundation the double height, the high fortress of the wall about the temple: 3In his days the cistern to receive water, being in compass as…
1The remembrance of Josias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary: it is sweet as honey in all mouths, and as musick at a banquet of wine. 2He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity. 3He directed…
1Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burned like a lamp. 2He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he diminished their number. 3By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three times brought down fire. 4O Elias, how wast thou honoured in…
1And after him rose up Nathan to prophesy in the time of David. 2As is the fat taken away from the peace offering, so was David chosen out of the children of Israel. 3He played with lions as with kids, and with bears as with lambs. 4Slew he not a giant, when he was yet…
1Jesus the son a Nave was valiant in the wars, and was the successor of Moses in prophecies, who according to his name was made great for the saving of the elect of God, and taking vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, that he might set Israel in their inheritance. 2How great…