Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 8:1 | Set the Trumpet to thy mouth: hee shall come as an Eagle against the house of the Lord, because they haue transgressed my Couenant, and trespassed against my Lawe. |
| 8:2 | Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee. |
| 8:3 | Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him. |
| 8:4 | They haue set vp Kings, but not by me: they haue made Princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their golde haue they made them idoles, that they may be cut off. |
| 8:5 | Thy calfe, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it bee ere they attaine to innocencie? |
| 8:6 | For from Israel was it also, the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. |
| 8:7 | For they haue sowen the winde, and they shall reape the whirlewinde: it hath no stalke: the budde shall yeeld no meale: if so be it yeeld, the strangers shall swallow it vp. |
| 8:8 | Israel is swallowed vp, now shal they be among the Gentiles, as a vessell wherein is no pleasure. |
| 8:9 | For they are gone vp to Assyria, a wilde Asse alone by himselfe; Ephraim hath hired louers. |
| 8:10 | Yea, though they haue hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the King of princes. |
| 8:11 | Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, altars shall be vnto him to sinne. |
| 8:12 | I haue written to him the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing. |
| 8:13 | They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it; but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shal returne to Egypt. |
| 8:14 | For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth temples; and Iudah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof. |
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.