1st Chronicles 16

CHAPTER 16

¹Therefore they brought the ark of God, and setted [or set] it in the midst of the tabernacle, that David had arrayed thereto; and they offered burnt sacrifices and peaceable sacrifices before the Lord.

²And when David offering burnt sacrifices and peaceable sacrifices had fulfilled, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord;

³and he parted to all, to each by himself, from man to woman, one cake or a cake of bread, and a part of roasted flesh of a bugle, and flour fried in oil.

⁴And he ordained before the ark of the Lord, of the Levites, that is, deacons , that should minister, that is, serve , and have mind of the works of the Lord, and glorify and praise the Lord God of Israel;

⁵Asaph the prince, and Zechariah his second; forsooth Jeiel, and Shemi-ramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, on the organs of the psaltery, and on the harps; but he ordained Asaph to sound with cymbals;

⁶and he ordained Benaiah and Jahaziel, priests, before the ark of the bond of peace of the Lord, for to trump continually.

⁷In that day, David made Asaph prince, and his brethren, for to acknowledge to the Lord.

⁸Acknowledge ye to the Lord, and inwardly call ye his name; make ye his findings known among peoples.

⁹Sing ye to him, and say ye psalm to him, and tell ye all his marvels.

¹⁰Praise ye his holy name; the heart of men seeking the Lord be glad.

¹¹Seek ye the Lord and his strength; seek ye ever[more] his face.

¹²Have ye mind of his marvels that he hath done; of his signs, and of the dooms of his mouth.

¹³The seed of Israel, his servant, praise thou God ; the sons of Jacob, his chosen, praise ye God .

¹⁴He is the Lord our God; his dooms be in each land.

¹⁵Have ye mind without end of his covenant; of the word which he covenanted into a thousand gener-ations.

¹⁶Which word he covenanted with Abraham; and of his oath to Isaac.

¹⁷And he ordained that word to Jacob into a commandment; and to Israel into everlasting covenant.

¹⁸And he said, To thee I shall give the land of Canaan; the part of your heritage.

¹⁹When they were few in number; little, and pilgrims thereof.

²⁰And they passed from folk into folk; and from a realm to another people.

²¹He suffered not any man to falsely challenge them; but he blamed kings for them.

²²And he said , Do not ye touch my christs, that is, patriarchs anointed with the anointing of grace ; and do not ye do wickedly against my prophets.

²³All [the] earth, sing ye to the Lord; tell ye from day into day his health.

²⁴Tell ye among heathen men his glory; his marvels among all peoples.

²⁵For the Lord is great, and worthy to be praised full much; and he is horrible, that is, fearful , over all gods.

²⁶For all the gods of peoples be idols; but the Lord made heavens.

²⁷Acknowledging and great doing be before him; strength and joy be in the place of him.

²⁸Ye meines of peoples, bring ye to the Lord; bring ye to the Lord glory and empire.

²⁹Give ye the glory to his name, raise ye up sacrifice, and come ye in his sight; and worship ye the Lord in holy fairness.

³⁰All earth be moved from his face; for he hath founded the world unmoveable.

³¹Heavens be glad, and the earth make full out joy; and say they among nations, The Lord reign.

³²The sea thunder, and his fullness; the fields fully joy they, and all things that be in those [or them] .

³³Then the trees of the forest shall praise before the Lord; for he cometh to deem the earth.

³⁴Acknowledge to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is without end.

³⁵And say ye, Thou God, our saviour, save us, and gather us together, and deliver us from heathen men; that we acknowledge to thine holy name, and be fully glad in thy songs.

³⁶Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from without beginning and into with-out end; and all the people say, Amen, and say praising to God.

³⁷Therefore David left there, before the ark of [the] bond of peace of the Lord, Asaph and his brethren, for to minister in the sight of or before the ark, continually, by all days and their whiles.

³⁸And David ordained as porters, Obededom and his brethren, eight and sixty; and Obededom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah.

³⁹And he ordained Zadok priest, and his brethren, priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord, in the high place that was in Gibeon,

⁴⁰for to offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of burnt sacrifice continually, in the morrowtide and eventide, by all things that be written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded to Israel.

⁴¹And after him David ordained Heman and Jeduthun, and [the] other chosen men, each man by his name, for to acknowledge to the Lord; for his mercy is without end.

⁴²And he ordained Heman and Jeduthun, with trumping, and shaking cymbals, and all organs of musics, for to sing to God; forsooth he made the sons of Jeduthun to be porters.

⁴³And all the people turned again into their house, and David turned again , to bless also his house.