Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his Servant.
And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy Servant:
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your Servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your Servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Behold now, thy Servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
And Abraham said unto his eldest Servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
And the Servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
And the Servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
And the Servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy Servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
And the Servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's Servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
And the Servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's Servant, and his men.
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the Servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
For she had said unto the Servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the Servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my Servant Abraham's sake.
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy Servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy Servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
Then thou shalt say, They be thy Servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy Servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy Servant.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his Servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew Servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy Servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, Servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
And they answered, Thy Servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my Servant; and ye shall be blameless.
And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my Servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy Servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy Servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy Servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Now therefore when I come to thy Servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy Servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
For thy Servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy Servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a Servant unto tribute.
And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy Servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
But every man's Servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his Servant Moses.
If thou buy an Hebrew Servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
And if the Servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
And if a man smite his Servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
And if a man smite the eye of his Servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his Servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired Servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy Servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired Servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
But as an hired Servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired Servant shall it be with him.
And as a yearly hired Servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy Servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
And Joshua the son of Nun, the Servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my Servant Moses?
But my Servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy Servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
And remember that thou wast a Servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy Servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired Servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the Servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Thou shalt not oppress an hired Servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
So Moses the Servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
Now after the death of Moses the Servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Moses my Servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my Servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Remember the word which Moses the Servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S Servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his Servant?
As Moses the Servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the Servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his Servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the Servant of the LORD commanded.
As the LORD commanded Moses his Servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Them did Moses the Servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the Servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the Servant of the LORD gave them;
Forty years old was I when Moses the Servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the Servant of the LORD gave them.
And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the Servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the Servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the Servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the Servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the Servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his Servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy Servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his Servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his Servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the Servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah. And he said unto his Servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah. And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin. read more And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging. And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites. And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou? And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house. Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing. And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street. So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light. And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place. And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel. And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds. show less
And he said unto his Servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
And the Servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's Servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's Servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy Servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy Servant heareth.
And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his Servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
Then said Saul to his Servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
And the Servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
Then said Saul to his Servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
And Samuel took Saul and his Servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the Servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his Servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.
And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy Servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
And David said unto Saul, Thy Servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
Thy Servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy Servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his Servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to theeward very good:
If he say thus, It is well; thy Servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy Servant; for thou hast brought thy Servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my Servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his Servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy Servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy Servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy Servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy Servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his Servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a Servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a Servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his Servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his Servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy Servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my Servant for ever.
And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy Servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the Servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy Servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, Servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my Servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
Go and tell my Servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my Servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy Servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy Servant know them.
And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy Servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy Servant David be established before thee.
For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy Servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy Servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy Servant:
Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy Servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy Servant be blessed for ever.
And there was of the house of Saul a Servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy Servant is he.
Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy Servant!
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy Servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's Servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.
Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his Servant, so shall thy Servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy Servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy Servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
Then he called his Servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his Servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy Servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy Servant.
And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy Servant said, so it is.
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy Servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
To fetch about this form of speech hath thy Servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy Servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his Servant.
And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy Servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
For thy Servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy Servant be.
But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy Servant, O king; as I have been thy father's Servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy Servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the Servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's Servant, and me thy Servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the Servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
For thy Servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
And he answered, My lord, O king, my Servant deceived me: for thy Servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy Servant is lame.
And he hath slandered thy Servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy Servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy Servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy Servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Let thy Servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy Servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy Servant; for I have done very foolishly.
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his Servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy Servant hath he not called.
But me, even me thy Servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy Servant Solomon, hath he not called.
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy Servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his Servant with the sword.
And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy Servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy Servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy Servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
And thy Servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
Give therefore thy Servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Who hast kept with thy Servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy Servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy Servant David my father.
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy Servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy Servant prayeth before thee to day:
That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy Servant shall make toward this place.
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy Servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy Servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his Servant.
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his Servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his Servant, and for Israel his people.
Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy Servant.
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my Servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's Servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
(But he shall have one tribe for my Servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my Servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my Servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my Servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a Servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my Servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his Servant Ahijah the prophet.
And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his Servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
And his Servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy Servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy Servant fear the LORD from my youth.
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy Servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
And said to his Servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his Servant there.
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy Servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy Servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy Servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
And as thy Servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy Servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy Servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
And he said to Gehazi his Servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
Then she saddled an ass, and said to her Servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his Servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his Servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my Servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy Servant.
And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy Servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy Servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
In this thing the LORD pardon thy Servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy Servant in this thing.
But Gehazi, the Servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy Servant went no whither.
And when the Servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his Servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
And the king talked with Gehazi the Servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
And Hazael said, But what, is thy Servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his Servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his Servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his Servant Elijah.
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his Servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy Servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his Servant, and gave him presents.
Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the Servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my Servant David's sake.
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my Servant David's sake.
Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my Servant Moses commanded them.
And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a Servant of the king's, saying,
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his Servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a Servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a Servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his Servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the Servant of God had commanded.
Go and tell David my Servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my Servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy Servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy Servant? for thou knowest thy Servant.
O LORD, for thy Servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy Servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy Servant be established before thee.
For thou, O my God, hast told thy Servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy Servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy Servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy Servant; for I have done very foolishly.
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the Servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
Thou which hast kept with thy Servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy Servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy Servant David.
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy Servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy Servant prayeth before thee:
That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy Servant prayeth toward this place.
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy Servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy Servant.
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the Servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the Servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the Servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his Servant Hezekiah.
And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a Servant of the king's, saying,
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy Servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy Servant Moses.
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy Servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy Servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy Servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy Servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his Servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
Then sent Sanballat his Servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy Servant:
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the Servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my Servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
As a Servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my Servant Job hath.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my Servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my Servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my Servant Job.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the Servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Keep back thy Servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy Servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his Servant.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the Servant of the LORD.} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy Servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy Servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. read more Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. show less
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy Servant rejoice.
O LORD, truly I am thy Servant; I am thy Servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy Servant did meditate in thy statutes. Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers. DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. read more Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. show less
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy Servant.
How many are the days of thy Servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy Servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
And enter not into judgment with thy Servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy Servant.
It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his Servant from the hurtful sword.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be Servant to the wise of heart.
He that is despised, and hath a Servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
The king's favour is toward a wise Servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
A wise Servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
A Servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
He that delicately bringeth up his Servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy Servant curse thee:
And the LORD said, Like as my Servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my Servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the Servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my Servant David's sake.
But thou, Israel, art my Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my Servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
Behold my Servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Who is blind, but my Servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S Servant?
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my Servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my Servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my Servant: I have formed thee; thou art my Servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
That confirmeth the word of his Servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
For Jacob my Servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his Servant Jacob.
And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his Servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a Servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his Servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Behold, my Servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous Servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my Servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my Servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
Therefore fear thou not, O my Servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my Servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my Servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my Servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his Servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my Servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
But fear not thou, O my Servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Fear thou not, O Jacob my Servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my Servant Jacob.
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my Servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
And I the LORD will be their God, and my Servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
And David my Servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my Servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my Servant David shall be their prince for ever.
And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, Servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the Servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy Servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
For how can the Servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my Servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my Servant the BRANCH.
A son honoureth his father, and a Servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Remember ye the law of Moses my Servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my Servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my Servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his Servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the Servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
Behold my Servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
The Servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Then the lord of that Servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
But the same Servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked Servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Who then is a faithful and wise Servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
The lord of that Servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful Servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful Servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful Servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
And cast ye the unprofitable Servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a Servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and Servant of all.
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a Servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
And again he sent unto them another Servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a Servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his Servant.
Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my Servant shall be healed.
For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my Servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the Servant whole that had been sick.
But and if that Servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
The lord of that Servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
And that Servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
And sent his Servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
So that Servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his Servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
And the lord said unto the Servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
No Servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
But which of you, having a Servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
And he said unto him, Well, thou good Servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked Servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
And at the season he sent a Servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
And again he sent another Servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the Servant of sin.
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my Servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the Servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The Servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's Servant, and cut off his right ear. The Servant's name was Malchus.
Paul, a Servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Who art thou that judgest another man's Servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a Servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
Art thou called being a Servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a Servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's Servant.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself Servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the Servant of Christ.
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a Servant, though he be lord of all;
Wherefore thou art no more a Servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a Servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Epaphras, who is one of you, a Servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
And the Servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Paul, a Servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
Not now as a Servant, but above a Servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a Servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
James, a Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Simon Peter, a Servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his Servant John:
And they sing the song of Moses the Servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
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