Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | I lift vp mine eyes againe, and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. |
| 2:2 | Then said I, Whither goest thou? And hee said vnto me, To measure Ierusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. |
| 2:3 | And behold, the Angel that talked with me, went foorth, and another Angel went out to meete him: |
| 2:4 | And said vnto him, Run, speake to this young man, saying; Ierusalem shall be inhabited as townes without walles, for the multitude of men and cattell therein. |
| 2:5 | For I, saith the Lord, will be vnto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. |
| 2:6 | Ho, ho, come foorth, and flee from the land of the North, saith the Lord: for I haue spread you abroad as the foure windes of the heauen, sayth the Lord. |
| 2:7 | Deliuer thy selfe, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. |
| 2:8 | For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, After the glory hath he sent me vnto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye. |
| 2:9 | For behold, I will shake mine hand vpon them, and they shall bee a spoile to their seruants: and yee shall know that the Lord of hostes hath sent me. |
| 2:10 | Sing and reioyce, O daughter of Zion: for loe, I come, and I will dwell in the middest of thee, sayth the Lord. |
| 2:11 | And many nations shalbe ioyned to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwel in the middest of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hostes hath sent me vnto thee. |
| 2:12 | And the Lord shall inherite Iudah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Ierusalem againe. |
| 2:13 | Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised vp out of his holy habitation. |
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.