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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gifts for Building the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then King David said to the whole assembly: &#8220;My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">With all my resources I have provided for the temple of my God&#8212;gold for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:2 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> stones of various colors, and all kinds of fine stone and marble&#8212;all of these in large quantities. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided for this holy temple: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">three thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 110 tons or about 100 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 260 tons or about 235 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of refined silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the leaders of families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king&#8217;s work gave willingly. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They gave toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 190 tons or about 170 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> and ten thousand darics</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 185 pounds or about 84 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, ten thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 380 tons or about 340 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, eighteen thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 675 tons or about 610 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of bronze and a hundred thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3,800 tons or about 3,400 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of iron. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Anyone who had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the custody of Jehiel the Gershonite. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. David the king also rejoiced greatly.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">David praised the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the presence of the whole assembly, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.29.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.29.10"><span class="content">the God of our father Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.29.10"><span class="content">from everlasting to everlasting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Yours, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, is the greatness and the power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.29.11"><span class="content">and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.29.11"><span class="content">for everything in heaven and earth is yours.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.29.11"><span class="content">Yours, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, is the kingdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.29.11"><span class="content">you are exalted as head over all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Wealth and honor come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.29.12"><span class="content">you are the ruler of all things.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.29.12"><span class="content">In your hands are strength and power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.29.12"><span class="content">to exalt and give strength to all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now, our God, we give you thanks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.29.13"><span class="content">and praise your glorious name.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a temple for your Holy Name comes from your hand, and all of it belongs to you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep these desires and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands, statutes and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure for which I have provided.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CH.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then David said to the whole assembly, &#8220;Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.&#8221; So they all praised the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their fathers; they bowed down, prostrating themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the king.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon Acknowledged as King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CH.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CH.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The next day they made sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and presented burnt offerings to him: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams and a thousand male lambs, together with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.29.22"><span class="content">Then they acknowledged Solomon son of David as king a second time, anointing him before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to be ruler and Zadok to be priest. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CH.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Solomon sat on the throne of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as king in place of his father David. He prospered and all Israel obeyed him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David&#8217;s sons, pledged their submission to King Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CH.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him royal splendor such as no king over Israel ever had before.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CH.29.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CH.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">David son of Jesse was king over all Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CH.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He ruled over Israel forty years&#8212;seven in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CH.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He died at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth and honor. His son Solomon succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CH.29.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CH.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As for the events of King David&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, they are written in the records of Samuel the seer, the records of Nathan the prophet and the records of Gad the seer, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CH.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">together with the details of his reign and power, and the circumstances that surrounded him and Israel and the kingdoms of all the other lands.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Lament and Call to Repentance</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fallen is Virgin Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">never to rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">deserted in her own land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">with no one to lift her up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Your city that marches out a thousand strong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">will have only a hundred left;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">your town that marches out a hundred strong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">will have only ten left.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="content">&#8220;Seek me and live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">do not seek Bethel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">do not go to Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">do not journey to Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">For Gilgal will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">aven, </span><span class="ft">a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see Hosea 4:15.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">it will devour them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">and Bethel will have no one to quench it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There are those who turn justice into bitterness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="content">and cast righteousness to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He who made the Pleiades and Orion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">who turns midnight into dawn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">and darkens day into night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">who calls for the waters of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">and pours them out over the face of the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="content">and brings the fortified city to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="content">and detest the one who tells the truth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You levy a straw tax on the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">and impose a tax on their grain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">you will not live in them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">though you have planted lush vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">you will not drink their wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For I know how many are your offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">and how great your sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="content">for the times are evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Seek good, not evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty will be with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">just as you say he is.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hate evil, love good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">maintain justice in the courts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">Perhaps the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty will have mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">on the remnant of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">&#8220;There will be wailing in all the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">and cries of anguish in every public square.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">The farmers will be summoned to weep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">and the mourners to wail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There will be wailing in all the vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">for I will pass through your midst,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Woe to you who long</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">Why do you long for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">That day will be darkness, not light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It will be as though a man fled from a lion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">only to meet a bear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">as though he entered his house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">and rested his hand on the wall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">only to have a snake bite him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Will not the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be darkness, not light&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="content">pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;I hate, I despise your religious festivals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="content">your assemblies are a stench to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">I will not accept them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">I will have no regard for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Away with the noise of your songs!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="content">I will not listen to the music of your harps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But let justice roll on like a river,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="content">righteousness like a never-failing stream!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="content">forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You have lifted up the shrine of your king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">the pedestal of your idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">the star of your god</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods</span><span class="ft">; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">which you made for yourselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="AMO.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="AMO.5.27"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, whose name is God Almighty.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus at a Pharisee&#8217;s House</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If one of you has a child</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:5 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">donkey</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And they had nothing to say.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, &#8216;Give this person your seat.&#8217; Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, &#8216;Friend, move up to a better place.&#8217; Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to his host, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Great Banquet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, &#8220;Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus replied: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, &#8216;Come, for everything is now ready.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, &#8216;I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Another said, &#8216;I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I&#8217;m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Still another said, &#8216;I just got married, so I can&#8217;t come.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, &#8216;Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; the servant said, &#8216;what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.14.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the master told his servant, &#8216;Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Cost of Being a Disciple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.14.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.14.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters&#8212;yes, even their own life&#8212;such a person cannot be my disciple.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.14.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.14.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.14.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won&#8217;t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.14.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.14.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">saying, &#8216;This person began to build and wasn&#8217;t able to finish.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.14.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.14.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won&#8217;t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.14.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.14.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.14.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.14.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.14.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.14.35"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="PHM.1.17+PHM.1.18+PHM.1.19+PHM.1.20+PHM.1.21+PHM.1.22+PHM.1.23+PHM.1.24+PHM.1.25">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHM.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHM.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHM.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back&#8212;not to mention that you owe me your very self. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHM.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHM.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHM.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PHM.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PHM.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PHM.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.</span></span></div>
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