Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 7:1 | When I would haue healed Israel, then the iniquitie of Ephraim was discouered, and the wickednesse of Samaria: for they commit falsehood: and the thiefe commeth in, and the troupe of robbers spoileth without. |
| 7:2 | And they consider not in their hearts that I remember al their wickednesse: now their owne doings haue beset them about, they are before my face. |
| 7:3 | They make the king glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies. |
| 7:4 | They are al adulterers, as an ouen heated by the baker: who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, vntill it be leauened. |
| 7:5 | In the day of our King, the princes haue made him sicke with bottels of wine, he stretched out his hand with scorners. |
| 7:6 | For they haue made ready their heart like an ouen, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. |
| 7:7 | They are all hot as an ouen, and haue deuoured their Iudges; all their Kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth vnto me. |
| 7:8 | Ephraim, he hath mixed himselfe among the people, Ephraim is a cake not turned. |
| 7:9 | Strangers haue deuoured his strength, and hee knoweth it not: yea, gray haires are here and there vpon him, yet he knoweth not. |
| 7:10 | And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, and they doe not returne to the Lord their God, nor seeke him for all this. |
| 7:11 | Ephraim also is like a silly doue, without heart: they call to Egypt; they goe to Assyria. |
| 7:12 | When they shall goe, I wil spread my net vpon them, I will bring them downe as the foules of the heauen: I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard. |
| 7:13 | Woe vnto them, for they haue fled from me: destruction vnto them, because they haue transgressed against me, though I haue redeemed them, yet they haue spoken lies against me. |
| 7:14 | And they haue not cryed vnto me with their heart, when they howled vpon their beds: they assemble themselues for corne and wine, and they rebell against me. |
| 7:15 | Though I haue bound, and strengthened their armes, yet doe they imagine mischiefe against me. |
| 7:16 | They returne, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitfull bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
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.