Part Seven: Elvis: The Book of the King, In King James English

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THE BOOK OF THE KING IN KING JAMES ENGLISH:

The Story of Elvis Aaron Presley in the language of the one book he loved the most:

The King James Bible. 

BOOK SEVEN: ANGELS

 
Chapter 1
 
1     Now from the East came great warriors

2     of many tribes in many long ships

3     crossing the sea to take the land of the island with violence

4     and make it their own.

5     And one of these tribes was greater than all the rest

6     and the people were of hair of yellow.

7     And this was the tribe of the people called the Angle.

8     And the inhabitants of the land fought against them

9     but then fled before their fierceness into the mountains

10   where the Angle could not follow.

11   And the Angle settled in the land

12   and made much of it their own forever more.

13   And it is after these people that the name of the island came to be known.

14   The land of the Angle.

15   Angle Land.

 

Chapter 2

1     But some of the Angle

2     were captured and sold unto slavery

3     and were sent to Rome where they could be sold again.

4     For in every battle and in every war

5     were those who waited in the darkness

6     to sell the captured into bondage.

7     Even the children of the captured.

8     And there was a certain believer in Rome

9     and when he saw a beautiful young boy with yellow hair

10   being sold to the highest bidder,

11   he asked from whence such a child came.

12   And when he was told that the little boy was of the Angle

13   He spake saying,  Nay he is not of the Angle,

14   but of the angels.

15   And though he was of little power in the Church in Rome

16   he swore to God that if God would suffer him,

17   he would send many men unto the land of the Angle to speak unto them of Jesus.

18   And behold, God heard him and made him the head of the Church in Italy.

19   And the believer kept his word to God and sent forty believers

20   unto the Isle to tell the people of the Angle,

21   of Jesus Christ the Savior.

 

Chapter 3

1     And he sent the forty for this cause,

2     that in those days the word of God was in each poor believer's heart

3     for there was not one book in all the land.

4     Nay, not one, as we know books to be now.

5     For not many could read but the very wealthy

6     And nothing was written except upon the dried leaves of  plants

7     which grew along the River Nile

8     along with the bulrushes and reeds,

9     which were rolled up into scroll,

10   which only the wealthy could afford.

11   And also did the rich men write upon the dried inner parts

12   of the sheep and the goat

13   and these writings were called parchments.

14   But there was no paper as thou now writest upon in thine own writings,

15   and the paper was not bound as it is in thy day.

16   And all that was written on scroll or parchments

17   was written in Greek or Latin or Hebrew,

18   For the Angle had at this time no written language of their own.

19   Thus did the head of the Church in Rome send forty more believers

20   unto the Island,

21   so that more could tell the story of Jesus,

22   and so that more could hear.

 

Chapter 4

1     And those days

2     whereas much grain came from Egypt

3     that which came the most part from Angle Land,

4     were slaves.

5     And slaves were not sold only of those captured in battle

6     but when the people were hungry

7     as oft they were,

8     they sold their own mothers and fathers and sons and daughters

9     into slavery.

10   And when all was sold but themselves

11   and yet they starved still,

12   they sold themselves into slavery

13   that they might at last have somewhat to eat.

 

Chapter 5

1     And many in those days blamed the Jews for their poverty

2     Just as the Jews are oft blamed unto this very day for evil times.

3     And there arose a certain king of the Angle

4     and he took all that belonged unto the Jews away from them

5     all their treasure and all their possessions

6     and forced them to flee from the Island.

7     And the number of Jews who fled in these times was ten and six thousand,

8     and few returned,

9     Nay, few returned for the length of four hundred years.  

 

Chapter 6

1     Then God sent a plague among the people

2     not only those of the island

3     but of all the lands to the South and East as well.

4     And half the people alive at the break of day,

5     were dead at the setting of the sun.

6     And the number of souls who died in the plague

7     were as the stars in the sky on a very clear night.

8     Without number were they who died.

9     Then God caused the plague to cease.

 

Chapter 7

1     Then there arose tidings on the Island

2     that as Jesus had done

3     so had a king of the Angle risen from the dead,

4     and that he had been seen by many

5     and that he would return to be king of the land once more.

6     But the rulers believed not this rumor

7     and sought the king's grave to be dug up.

8     But others said do not this thing,

9     for by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead much time.

10   But the rulers went forth and found

11   the decayed body still within the grave.

12   Then caused they this dead king to be set upon a chair

13   and men carried it through the streets

14   so that all men could see

15   Only Jesus of Nazareth has risen from the grave

16   save Lazarus and others which the Christ himself raised from the dead.

17   And many believed the more in Jesus.

 

Chapter 8

1    But still could no man on the island

2    read about him in the language of their own tounge.

3    For many of the rulers of the Church desired it not.

4    For they who controlled the written word

5    in Greek and Latin and Hebrew

6    told the people only that which they desired the people to know

7    of the Good News of Jesus Christ.

8    That which would keep them in need of the high Church rulers

9     and in bondage to them for knowledge of the Lord.

10   And the Church in Rome

11   And it's officials in the former Barbarian lands,

12   became very wealthy from the money given them by the multitudes

13   who were told they could buy forgiveness for their sins

14   and that money given to the church could help their loved ones

15   who were already dead and in danger of hell fire.

16   But there arose in common men

17   a disbelief that this was true

18   and there also arose a great desire rose in them

19   to know the word of God for themselves.

20   To be able to read it in their own language:

21   The language of the Angle.

22   That they might know the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ themselves.

23   But this was forbidden them,

24   under threat of death.

25   And the king of the Angle

26   was called the defender of the faith.

27   by the Ruler of the Church in Rome,

28   for he as well desired not that the common man

29   know God for himself.

30   And know ye this:

31   If I, this writer, wrote in olden times,

32   What I have written to you this day,

33   I could have been punished by death.

34   As many were.

35   And in those days was not a man crucified,

36   But the executioner was summoned,

37   And he was beheaded.

End of Book Seven.

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