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 <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1">The Ark Returned to Israel</div><div class="p"> 1When the ark of the Lord had been in Philistine territory seven months, 2the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, &#8220;What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 3They answered, &#8220;If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift; by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 4The Philistines asked, &#8220;What guilt offering should we send to him?&#8221;</div><div class="p">They replied, &#8220;Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers. 5Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory to Israel&#8217;s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land. 6Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel&#8217;s god dealt harshly with them, did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?</div><div class="p"> 7&#8220;Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. 8Take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, 9but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 10So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves. 11They placed the ark of the Lord on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors. 12Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.</div><div class="p"> 13Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight. 14The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord. 15The Levites took down the ark of the Lord, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. On that day the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. 16The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekron.</div><div class="p"> 17These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the Lord&#8212;one each for Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. 18And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers&#8212;the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.</div><div class="p"> 19But God struck down some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy#6:19 A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint 50,070 of them to death because they looked into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them. 20And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, &#8220;Who can stand in the presence of the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 21Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim, saying, &#8220;The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to your town.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="p">19Jesus gave them this answer: &#8220;Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 22Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.</div><div class="p"> 24 &#8220;Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.</div><div class="p"> 28 &#8220;Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29and come out&#8212;those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. 30By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.</div><div class="s1">Testimonies About Jesus</div><div class="p"> 31 &#8220;If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.</div><div class="p"> 33 &#8220;You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.</div><div class="p"> 36 &#8220;I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish&#8212;the very works that I am doing&#8212;testify that the Father has sent me. 37And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39You study#5:39 Or 39 Study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40yet you refuse to come to me to have life.</div><div class="p"> 41 &#8220;I do not accept glory from human beings, 42but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43I have come in my Father&#8217;s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God#5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One?</div><div class="p"> 45 &#8220;But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">109</div><div class="cl">Psalm 109</div><div class="d">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</div><div class="q1"> 1My God, whom I praise,</div><div class="q2">do not remain silent,</div><div class="q1"> 2for people who are wicked and deceitful</div><div class="q2">have opened their mouths against me;</div><div class="q2">they have spoken against me with lying tongues.</div><div class="q1"> 3With words of hatred they surround me;</div><div class="q2">they attack me without cause.</div><div class="q1"> 4In return for my friendship they accuse me,</div><div class="q2">but I am a man of prayer.</div><div class="q1"> 5They repay me evil for good,</div><div class="q2">and hatred for my friendship.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;</div><div class="q2">let an accuser stand at his right hand.</div><div class="q1"> 7When he is tried, let him be found guilty,</div><div class="q2">and may his prayers condemn him.</div><div class="q1"> 8May his days be few;</div><div class="q2">may another take his place of leadership.</div><div class="q1"> 9May his children be fatherless</div><div class="q2">and his wife a widow.</div><div class="q1"> 10May his children be wandering beggars;</div><div class="q2">may they be driven#109:10 Septuagint; Hebrew sought from their ruined homes.</div><div class="q1"> 11May a creditor seize all he has;</div><div class="q2">may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.</div><div class="q1"> 12May no one extend kindness to him</div><div class="q2">or take pity on his fatherless children.</div><div class="q1"> 13May his descendants be cut off,</div><div class="q2">their names blotted out from the next generation.</div><div class="q1"> 14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord;</div><div class="q2">may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.</div><div class="q1"> 15May their sins always remain before the Lord,</div><div class="q2">that he may blot out their name from the earth.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 16For he never thought of doing a kindness,</div><div class="q2">but hounded to death the poor</div><div class="q2">and the needy and the brokenhearted.</div><div class="q1"> 17He loved to pronounce a curse&#8212;</div><div class="q2">may it come back on him.</div><div class="q1">He found no pleasure in blessing&#8212;</div><div class="q2">may it be far from him.</div><div class="q1"> 18He wore cursing as his garment;</div><div class="q2">it entered into his body like water,</div><div class="q2">into his bones like oil.</div><div class="q1"> 19May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,</div><div class="q2">like a belt tied forever around him.</div><div class="q1"> 20May this be the Lord&#8217;s payment to my accusers,</div><div class="q2">to those who speak evil of me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 21But you, Sovereign Lord,</div><div class="q2">help me for your name&#8217;s sake;</div><div class="q2">out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.</div><div class="q1"> 22For I am poor and needy,</div><div class="q2">and my heart is wounded within me.</div><div class="q1"> 23I fade away like an evening shadow;</div><div class="q2">I am shaken off like a locust.</div><div class="q1"> 24My knees give way from fasting;</div><div class="q2">my body is thin and gaunt.</div><div class="q1"> 25I am an object of scorn to my accusers;</div><div class="q2">when they see me, they shake their heads.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 26Help me, Lord my God;</div><div class="q2">save me according to your unfailing love.</div><div class="q1"> 27Let them know that it is your hand,</div><div class="q2">that you, Lord, have done it.</div><div class="q1"> 28While they curse, may you bless;</div><div class="q2">may those who attack me be put to shame,</div><div class="q2">but may your servant rejoice.</div><div class="q1"> 29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace</div><div class="q2">and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 30With my mouth I will greatly extol the Lord;</div><div class="q2">in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.</div><div class="q1"> 31For he stands at the right hand of the needy,</div><div class="q2">to save their lives from those who would condemn them.</div>
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