Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 6:1 | Come, and let vs returne vnto the Lord: for hee hath torne, and hee will heale vs: he hath smitten, and he will binde vs vp. |
| 6:2 | After two daies will he reuiue vs, in the third day he will raise vs vp, and we shall liue in his sight. |
| 6:3 | Then shal we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared, as the morning; & he shall come vnto vs, as the raine; as the latter and former raine vnto the earth. |
| 6:4 | O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, what shall I do vnto thee? For your goodnesse is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. |
| 6:5 | Therefore haue I shewed them by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, and thy iudgements are as the light that goeth foorth. |
| 6:6 | For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more then burnt offerings. |
| 6:7 | But they like men haue transgressed the Couenant: there haue they dealt treacherously against me. |
| 6:8 | Gilead is a city of them that worke iniquitie; and is polluted with blood. |
| 6:9 | And as troupes of robbers waite for a man, so the company of priestes murther in the way by consent: for they commit lewdnesse. |
| 6:10 | I haue seene an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredome of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
| 6:11 | Also O Iudah, hee hath set an haruest for thee, when I returned the captiuitie of my people. |
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.