Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

71 A psalm on Solomon.

² Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.

³ Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.

⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.

⁵ And he shall continue with the sun, and before the moon, throughout all generations.

⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth.

34 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem.

² And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father: he declined not, neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

³ And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

⁴ And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and be cut down the groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.

⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.

⁶ And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all.

⁷ And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had broken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

⁴⁴ While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word.

⁴⁵ And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished, for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

⁴⁶ For they heard them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God.

⁴⁷ Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?

⁴⁸ And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they desired him to tarry with them some days.