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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon: The Challoner Revision

1609

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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon: The Challoner Revision

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1609

History - Religious, Religion/Spirituality

This is the second book of Paralipomenon (Chronicles), covering the royal history of Judah from Solomon's golden age through the kingdom's slow collapse into Babylonian exile. The Chronicler, writing after the return from captivity, frames Israel's entire history as a meditation on faithfulness: Solomon's wisdom and the Temple's glory, then the slow erosion of that legacy through wayward kings, empty rituals, and fractured alliances. The narrative arc is unmistakably tragic, a people who once possessed everything losing it piece by piece, yet it closes with the faint promise of restoration: Cyrus's decree allowing return. What makes this book endure is its unflinching honesty about political and spiritual decay, and its insistence that glory, once squandered, must be rebuilt from ruins. The Douay-Rheims translation, with its formal cadence and latinate gravitas, renders this ancient lament in language that shaped English literature itself. Readers who cherish biblical history, the tragic arc of kingdoms, or the rhythmic beauty of archaic English will find here a text that rewards careful attention.

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“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.””

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“{21:2} “Question the Lord on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, is fighting against us.””

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“{57:21} There is no peace for the impious, says the Lord God.””

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“{57:17} Because of the iniquity of his avarice, I was angry, and I struck him down. I concealed my face from you, and””

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“{57:2} Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed.””

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“12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: 13 And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?””

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“And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.””

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“Chapter 4 1 Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee. 2 Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod. 3 And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it. 4 And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod. 5 That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee. 6 And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow. 7 And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh. 8 If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign. 9 But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood. 10 Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue. 11 The Lord said to him: Who made man’s mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?””

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“4:11. For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.””

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