Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vaine thing? |
| 2:2 | The Kings of the earth set themselues, and the rulers take counsell together, against the Lord, and against his Anoynted, saying, |
| 2:3 | Let vs breake their bandes asunder, and cast away their cords from vs. |
| 2:4 | Hee that sitteth in the heauens shal laugh: the Lord shall haue them in derision. |
| 2:5 | Then shall hee speake vnto them in his wrath, and vexe them in his sore displeasure. |
| 2:6 | Yet haue I set my King vpon my holy hill of Sion. |
| 2:7 | I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said vnto mee, Thou art my sonne, this day haue I begotten thee. |
| 2:8 | Aske of me, and I shall giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the vttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. |
| 2:9 | Thou shalt breake them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessell. |
| 2:10 | Bee wise now therefore, O yee Kings: be instructed ye Iudges of the earth. |
| 2:11 | Serue the Lord with feare, and reioyce with trembling. |
| 2:12 | Kisse the Sonne lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little: Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.