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         <div class="label">111</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 111</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">This psalm is an acrostic poem, the lines of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">111:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="content">I will extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with all my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="content">in the council of the upright and in the assembly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.111.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.111.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Great are the works of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.111.2"><span class="content">they are pondered by all who delight in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.111.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.111.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Glorious and majestic are his deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.111.3"><span class="content">and his righteousness endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.111.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.111.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He has caused his wonders to be remembered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.111.4"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is gracious and compassionate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.111.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.111.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He provides food for those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.111.5"><span class="content">he remembers his covenant forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.111.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.111.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He has shown his people the power of his works,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.111.6"><span class="content">giving them the lands of other nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.111.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.111.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The works of his hands are faithful and just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.111.7"><span class="content">all his precepts are trustworthy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.111.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.111.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are established for ever and ever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.111.8"><span class="content">enacted in faithfulness and uprightness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.111.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He provided redemption for his people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="content">he ordained his covenant forever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="content">holy and awesome is his name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.111.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.111.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the beginning of wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.111.10"><span class="content">all who follow his precepts have good understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.111.10"><span class="content">To him belongs eternal praise.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">112</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 112</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">This psalm is an acrostic poem, the lines of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.112.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">112:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.112.1"><span class="content">Blessed are those who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.112.1"><span class="content">who find great delight in his commands.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.112.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.112.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Their children will be mighty in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.112.2"><span class="content">the generation of the upright will be blessed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.112.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.112.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wealth and riches are in their houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.112.3"><span class="content">and their righteousness endures forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.112.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.112.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.112.4"><span class="content">for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.112.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.112.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.112.5"><span class="content">who conduct their affairs with justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.112.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.112.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely the righteous will never be shaken;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.112.6"><span class="content">they will be remembered forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.112.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.112.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They will have no fear of bad news;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.112.7"><span class="content">their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.112.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.112.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.112.8"><span class="content">in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.112.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.112.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.112.9"><span class="content">their righteousness endures forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.112.9"><span class="content">their horn</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">112:9 </span><span class="fq">Horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes dignity.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be lifted high in honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.112.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.112.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The wicked will see and be vexed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.112.10"><span class="content">they will gnash their teeth and waste away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.112.10"><span class="content">the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">113</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 113</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">113:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you his servants;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="content">praise the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.113.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be praised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.113.2"><span class="content">both now and forevermore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.113.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.113.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.113.3"><span class="content">the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is to be praised.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.113.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.113.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is exalted over all the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.113.4"><span class="content">his glory above the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.113.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.113.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who is like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.113.5"><span class="content">the One who sits enthroned on high,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.113.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.113.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">who stoops down to look</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.113.6"><span class="content">on the heavens and the earth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.113.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.113.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He raises the poor from the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.113.7"><span class="content">and lifts the needy from the ash heap;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.113.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.113.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">he seats them with princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.113.8"><span class="content">with the princes of his people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.113.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.113.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He settles the childless woman in her home</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.113.9"><span class="content">as a happy mother of children.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.113.9"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="content">To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">also to Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier&#8212;and to the church that meets in your home:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural; also in verses 22 and 25; elsewhere in this letter &#8220;you&#8221; is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving and Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHM.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHM.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHM.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord&#8217;s people.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Plea for Onesimus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHM.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHM.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul&#8212;an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHM.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Onesimus </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">useful.</span></span></span><span class="content"> who became my son while I was in chains. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHM.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am sending him&#8212;who is my very heart&#8212;back to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHM.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHM.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHM.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><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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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Arad Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Israel made this vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 3.</span></span></span><span class="content"> their cities.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> listened to Israel&#8217;s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:3 </span><span class="fq">Hormah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">destruction.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Bronze Snake</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, &#8220;Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The people came to Moses and said, &#8220;We sinned when we spoke against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and against you. Pray that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take the snakes away from us.&#8221; So Moses prayed for the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Journey to Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">From there they moved on and camped in the Zered Valley. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">That is why the Book of the Wars of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.21.14"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8230;Zahab</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:14 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Waheb</span></span></span><span class="content"> in Suphah and the ravines,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.21.14"><span class="content">the Arnon </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:14,15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;I have been given from Suphah and the ravines / of the Arnon </span><span class="fv">15 </span><span class="fqa">to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the slopes of the ravines</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="content">that lead to the settlement of Ar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="content">and lie along the border of Moab.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Gather the people together and I will give them water.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Israel sang this song:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Spring up, O well!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="content">Sing about it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">about the well that the princes dug,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="content">that the nobles of the people sank&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="content">the nobles with scepters and staffs.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="content">Then they went from the wilderness to Mattanah, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Defeat of Sihon and Og</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King&#8217;s Highway until we have passed through your territory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">That is why the poets say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="content">let Sihon&#8217;s city be restored.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fire went out from Heshbon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">a blaze from the city of Sihon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">It consumed Ar of Moab,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">the citizens of Arnon&#8217;s heights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Woe to you, Moab!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">You are destroyed, people of Chemosh!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">He has given up his sons as fugitives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">and his daughters as captives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">to Sihon king of the Amorites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;But we have overthrown them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">Heshbon&#8217;s dominion has been destroyed all the way to Dibon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">We have demolished them as far as Nophah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">which extends to Medeba.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, the Israelites captured its surrounding settlements and drove out the Amorites who were there. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then they turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army marched out to meet them in battle at Edrei.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.21.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So they struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army, leaving them no survivors. And they took possession of his land.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balak Summons Balaam</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and Moab was terrified because there were so many people. Indeed, Moab was filled with dread because of the Israelites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Moabites said to the elders of Midian, &#8220;This horde is going to lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.22.4"><span class="content">So Balak son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, who was at Pethor, near the Euphrates River, in his native land. Balak said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.22.5"><span class="content">&#8220;A people has come out of Egypt; they cover the face of the land and have settled next to me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The elders of Moab and Midian left, taking with them the fee for divination. When they came to Balaam, they told him what Balak had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Spend the night here,&#8221; Balaam said to them, &#8220;and I will report back to you with the answer the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives me.&#8221; So the Moabite officials stayed with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God came to Balaam and asked, &#8220;Who are these men with you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Balaam said to God, &#8220;Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8216;A people that has come out of Egypt covers the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps then I will be able to fight them and drive them away.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God said to Balaam, &#8220;Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The next morning Balaam got up and said to Balak&#8217;s officials, &#8220;Go back to your own country, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has refused to let me go with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the Moabite officials returned to Balak and said, &#8220;Balaam refused to come with us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Balak sent other officials, more numerous and more distinguished than the first. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They came to Balaam and said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.22.16"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what Balak son of Zippor says: Do not let anything keep you from coming to me, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">because I will reward you handsomely and do whatever you say. Come and put a curse on these people for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Balaam answered them, &#8220;Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now spend the night here so that I can find out what else the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will tell me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">That night God came to Balaam and said, &#8220;Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Donkey</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite officials. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When the donkey saw the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the donkey saw the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, it pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam&#8217;s foot against it. So he beat the donkey again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When the donkey saw the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, it lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat it with his staff. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> opened the donkey&#8217;s mouth, and it said to Balaam, &#8220;What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Balaam answered the donkey, &#8220;You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The donkey said to Balaam, &#8220;Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.22.30"><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.22.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> opened Balaam&#8217;s eyes, and he saw the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.22.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> asked him, &#8220;Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:32 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.22.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Balaam said to the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now if you are displeased, I will go back.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.22.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.22.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Balaam, &#8220;Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.&#8221; So Balaam went with Balak&#8217;s officials.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.22.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.22.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite town on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.22.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn&#8217;t you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.22.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.22.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Well, I have come to you now,&#8221; Balaam replied. &#8220;But I can&#8217;t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.22.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.22.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Then Balaam went with Balak to Kiriath Huzoth. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.22.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and gave some to Balaam and the officials who were with him. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.22.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal, and from there he could see the outskirts of the Israelite camp.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s First Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Balaam said, &#8220;Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.&#8221; Then he went off to a barren height.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God met with him, and Balaam said, &#8220;I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put a word in Balaam&#8217;s mouth and said, &#8220;Go back to Balak and give him this word.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Balaam spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Balak brought me from Aram,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">&#8216;Come,&#8217; he said, &#8216;curse Jacob for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">come, denounce Israel.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">How can I curse</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">those whom God has not cursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">How can I denounce</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">those whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not denounced?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">From the rocky peaks I see them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">from the heights I view them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">I see a people who live apart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">and do not consider themselves one of the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who can count the dust of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">or number even a fourth of Israel?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">Let me die the death of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">and may my final end be like theirs!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;Must I not speak what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> puts in my mouth?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Second Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Balak said to him, &#8220;Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, &#8220;Go back to Balak and give him this word.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him, &#8220;What did the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> say?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Arise, Balak, and listen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">hear me, son of Zippor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">God is not human, that he should lie,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">not a human being, that he should change his mind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Does he speak and then not act?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Does he promise and not fulfill?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I have received a command to bless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="content">he has blessed, and I cannot change it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;No misfortune is seen in Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">no misery observed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">He has not looked on Jacob&#8217;s offenses / or on the wrongs found</span></span></span><span class="content"> in Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God is with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">the shout of the King is among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">God brought them out of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="content">they have the strength of a wild ox.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">There is no divination against</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">no evil omens against</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">It will now be said of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">and of Israel, &#8216;See what God has done!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The people rise like a lioness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">they rouse themselves like a lion</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">that does not rest till it devours its prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">and drinks the blood of its victims.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Balaam answered, &#8220;Did I not tell you I must do whatever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Third Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Balaam said, &#8220;Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkNUM">
      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="NUM.24">
         <div class="label">24</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to bless Israel, he did not resort to divination as at other times, but turned his face toward the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">&#8220;The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the prophecy of one who hears the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">who sees a vision from the Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;How beautiful are your tents, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="content">your dwelling places, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Like valleys they spread out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">like gardens beside a river,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">like aloes planted by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">like cedars beside the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Water will flow from their buckets;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">their seed will have abundant water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Their king will be greater than Agag;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">their kingdom will be exalted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;God brought them out of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">they have the strength of a wild ox.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">They devour hostile nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">and break their bones in pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">with their arrows they pierce them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Like a lion they crouch and lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">like a lioness&#8212;who dares to rouse them?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">&#8220;May those who bless you be blessed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">and those who curse you be cursed!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Balak&#8217;s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to him, &#8220;I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now leave at once and go home! I said I would reward you handsomely, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept you from being rewarded.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Balaam answered Balak, &#8220;Did I not tell the messengers you sent me, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8216;Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;and I must say only what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8217;? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you of what this people will do to your people in days to come.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Fourth Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">&#8220;The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the prophecy of one who hears the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">who has knowledge from the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">who sees a vision from the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I see him, but not now;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">I behold him, but not near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">A star will come out of Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">a scepter will rise out of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">He will crush the foreheads of Moab,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">the skulls</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:17 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:17 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">Moab, / batter</span></span></span><span class="content"> all the people of Sheth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">all the noisy boasters</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Edom will be conquered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">Seir, his enemy, will be conquered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">but Israel will grow strong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A ruler will come out of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="content">and destroy the survivors of the city.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Fifth Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">&#8220;Amalek was first among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">but their end will be utter destruction.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Sixth Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Your dwelling place is secure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">your nest is set in a rock;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">yet you Kenites will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="content">when Ashur takes you captive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Seventh Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Alas! Who can live when God does this?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:23 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">The people from the islands will gather from the north.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">they will subdue Ashur and Eber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">but they too will come to ruin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Balaam got up and returned home, and Balak went his own way.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon Asks for Wisdom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Solomon son of David established himself firmly over his kingdom, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Solomon spoke to all Israel&#8212;to the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, to the judges and to all the leaders in Israel, the heads of families&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God&#8217;s tent of meeting was there, which Moses the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s servant had made in the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was in Gibeon in front of the tabernacle of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; so Solomon and the assembly inquired of him there. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, &#8220;Ask for whatever you want me to give you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Solomon answered God, &#8220;You have shown great kindness to David my father and have made me king in his place. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people who are as numerous as the dust of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God said to Solomon, &#8220;Since this is your heart&#8217;s desire and you have not asked for wealth, possessions or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give you wealth, possessions and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting. And he reigned over Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Solomon&#8217;s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">Probably Cilicia</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 pounds or about 1.7 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Preparations for Building the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 2:1 is numbered 1:18, and 2:2-18 is numbered 2:1-17.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and a royal palace for himself. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Solomon sent this message to Hiram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Huram, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Hiram </span><span class="ft">also in verses 11 and 12</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Tyre:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.2.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, whom my father David provided.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Send me also cedar, juniper and algum</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably a variant of </span><span class="fqa">almug</span></span></span><span class="content"> logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,200 metric tons of wheat</span></span></span><span class="content"> of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 3,000 tons or about 2,700 metric tons of barley</span></span></span><span class="content"> of barley, twenty thousand baths</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.2.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves his people, he has made you their king.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And Hiram added:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and a palace for himself.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Solomon took a census of all the foreigners residing in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon Builds the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Solomon began to build the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Ornan, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Araunah</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Jebusite, the place provided by David. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 90 feet long and 30 feet wide or about 27 meters long and 9 meters wide</span></span></span><span class="content"> (using the cubit of the old standard). </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13</span></span></span><span class="content"> long across the width of the building and twenty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:4 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">and a hundred and twenty</span></span></span><span class="content"> cubits high.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.3.4"><span class="content">He overlaid the inside with pure gold. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple&#8212;twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 23 tons or about 21 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of fine gold. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verse 15</span></span></span><span class="content"> long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">facing inward</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 53 feet or about 16 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> long, each with a capital five cubits high. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He made interwoven chains</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:16 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">made chains in the inner sanctuary</span><span class="ft">; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:17 </span><span class="fq">Jakin </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">he establishes.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the one to the north Boaz.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:17 </span><span class="fq">Boaz </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">in him is strength.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Temple&#8217;s Furnishings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 30 feet long and wide and 15 feet high or about 9 meters long and wide and 4.5 meters high</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high. It took a line of thirty cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> to measure around it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it&#8212;ten to a cubit.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It was a handbreadth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 18,000 gallons or about 66,000 liters</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.4.11"><span class="content">So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the two pillars;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="content">the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="content">the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">the stands with their basins;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.4.16"><span class="content">All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> were of polished bronze. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Zeredatha, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Zarethan</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God&#8217;s temple:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="content">the golden altar;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="content">the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated&#8212;the silver and gold and all the furnishings&#8212;and he placed them in the treasuries of God&#8217;s temple.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ark Brought to the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s covenant from Zion, the City of David. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The priests then brought the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">All the Levites who were musicians&#8212;Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives&#8212;stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and sang:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="content">&#8220;He is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="content">his love endures forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.5.13"><span class="content">Then the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was filled with the cloud, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> filled the temple of God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Better the poor whose walk is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="content">than a fool whose lips are perverse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Desire without knowledge is not good&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="content">how much more will hasty feet miss the way!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s own folly leads to their ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="content">yet their heart rages against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wealth attracts many friends,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="content">but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A false witness will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="content">and whoever pours out lies will not go free.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many curry favor with a ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="content">and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The poor are shunned by all their relatives&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">how much more do their friends avoid them!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">Though the poor pursue them with pleading,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">they are nowhere to be found.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who gets wisdom loves life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="content">the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A false witness will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="content">and whoever pours out lies will perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="content">how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s wisdom yields patience;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="content">it is to one&#8217;s glory to overlook an offense.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A king&#8217;s rage is like the roar of a lion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="content">but his favor is like dew on the grass.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A foolish child is a father&#8217;s ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">and a quarrelsome wife is like</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">the constant dripping of a leaky roof.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">but a prudent wife is from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laziness brings on deep sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">and the shiftless go hungry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">and he will reward them for what they have done.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">do not be a willing party to their death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">rescue them, and you will have to do it again.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Listen to advice and accept discipline,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">and at the end you will be counted among the wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Many are the plans in a person&#8217;s heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">but it is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s purpose that prevails.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What a person desires is unfailing love</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Greed is a person&#8217;s shame</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">better to be poor than a liar.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> leads to life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">then one rests content, untouched by trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">he will not even bring it back to his mouth!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">rebuke the discerning, and they will gain knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">is a child who brings shame and disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Stop listening to instruction, my son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">and you will stray from the words of knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A corrupt witness mocks at justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Penalties are prepared for mockers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="content">and beatings for the backs of fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="AMO.5">
         <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">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to the Complacent</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you who are complacent in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">you notable men of the foremost nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">to whom the people of Israel come!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Go to Kalneh and look at it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">go from there to great Hamath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">and then go down to Gath in Philistia.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">Are they better off than your two kingdoms?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">Is their land larger than yours?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You put off the day of disaster</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="content">and bring near a reign of terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You lie on beds adorned with ivory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">and lounge on your couches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">You dine on choice lambs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">and fattened calves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You strum away on your harps like David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="content">and improvise on musical instruments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You drink wine by the bowlful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">and use the finest lotions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="content">your feasting and lounging will end.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Abhors the Pride of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by himself&#8212;the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty declares:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I abhor the pride of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">and detest his fortresses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">I will deliver up the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">and everything in it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If ten people are left in one house, they too will die. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead</span></span></span><span class="content"> asks anyone who might be hiding there, &#8220;Is anyone else with you?&#8221; and he says, &#8220;No,&#8221; then he will go on to say, &#8220;Hush! We must not mention the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given the command,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">and he will smash the great house into pieces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">and the small house into bits.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do horses run on the rocky crags?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">Does one plow the sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">plow there</span></span></span><span class="content"> with oxen?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">But you have turned justice into poison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="fq">Lo Debar </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">nothing.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="content">and say, &#8220;Did we not take Karnaim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="fq">Karnaim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">horns</span><span class="ft">; </span><span class="fqa">horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength.</span></span></span><span class="content"> by our own strength?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty declares,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">&#8220;I will stir up a nation against you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">that will oppress you all the way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="AMO.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king&#8217;s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen,&#8221; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen either,&#8221; the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> with a plumb line</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> asked me, &#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A plumb line,&#8221; I replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">Then the Lord said, &#8220;Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;The high places of Isaac will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Amos and Amaziah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: &#8220;Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is what Amos is saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Jeroboam will die by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">and Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah said to Amos, &#8220;Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king&#8217;s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Amos answered Amaziah, &#8220;I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> took me from tending the flock and said to me, &#8216;Go, prophesy to my people Israel.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now then, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. You say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not prophesy against Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">Your land will be measured and divided up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and you yourself will die in a pagan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">an unclean</span></span></span><span class="content"> country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">And Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Basket of Ripe Fruit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">&#8220;A basket of ripe fruit,&#8221; I answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;the temple singers will wail</span></span></span><span class="content"> Many, many bodies&#8212;flung everywhere! Silence!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hear this, you who trample the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="content">and do away with the poor of the land,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">&#8220;When will the New Moon be over</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">that we may sell grain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">and the Sabbath be ended</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">that we may market wheat?&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">skimping on the measure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">boosting the price</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">and cheating with dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">buying the poor with silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">and the needy for a pair of sandals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">selling even the sweepings with the wheat.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: &#8220;I will never forget anything they have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will not the land tremble for this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">and all who live in it mourn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">The whole land will rise like the Nile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">it will be stirred up and then sink</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">like the river of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I will make the sun go down at noon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">and darken the earth in broad daylight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will turn your religious festivals into mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and all your singing into weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">I will make all of you wear sackcloth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and shave your heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">I will make that time like mourning for an only son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and the end of it like a bitter day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">&#8220;when I will send a famine through the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">not a famine of food or a thirst for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">but a famine of hearing the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">People will stagger from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">and wander from north to east,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">searching for the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">but they will not find it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">&#8220;the lovely young women and strong young men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">will faint because of thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Those who swear by the sin of Samaria&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">who say, &#8216;As surely as your god lives, Dan,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">or, &#8216;As surely as the god</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the way</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Beersheba lives&#8217;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">they will fall, never to rise again.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="AMO.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel to Be Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Strike the tops of the pillars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">so that the thresholds shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">Bring them down on the heads of all the people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">those who are left I will kill with the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">Not one will get away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">none will escape.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Though they dig down to the depths below,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">from there my hand will take them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">Though they climb up to the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">from there I will bring them down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">there I will hunt them down and seize them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">there I will command the serpent to bite them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">there I will command the sword to slay them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will keep my eye on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">for harm and not for good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">he touches the earth and it melts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">and all who live in it mourn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">the whole land rises like the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">then sinks like the river of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">he builds his lofty palace</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">and sets its foundation</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">he calls for the waters of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">and pours them out over the face of the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><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="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are not you Israelites</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">the same to me as the Cushites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, people from the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">the Philistines from Caphtor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, Crete</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">and the Arameans from Kir?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely the eyes of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">are on the sinful kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">I will destroy it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">from the face of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">Yet I will not totally destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">the descendants of Jacob,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;For I will give the command,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">and I will shake the people of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">among all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">as grain is shaken in a sieve,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">and not a pebble will reach the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">All the sinners among my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">will die by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">all those who say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">&#8216;Disaster will not overtake or meet us.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Restoration</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I will restore David&#8217;s fallen shelter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">I will repair its broken walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">and restore its ruins&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">and will rebuild it as it used to be,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so that they may possess the remnant of Edom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">and all the nations that bear my name,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who will do these things.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">&#8220;when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">and the planter by the one treading grapes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">New wine will drip from the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">and flow from all the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will restore the fortunes of my people Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">&#8220;They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">they will make gardens and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will plant Israel in their own land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">never again to be uprooted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">from the land I have given them,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Sentenced to Be Crucified</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and went up to him again and again, saying, &#8220;Hail, king of the Jews!&#8221; And they slapped him in the face.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, &#8220;Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, &#8220;Here is the man!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, &#8220;Crucify! Crucify!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.19.6"><span class="content">But Pilate answered, &#8220;You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Jewish leaders insisted, &#8220;We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and he went back inside the palace. &#8220;Where do you come from?&#8221; he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do you refuse to speak to me?&#8221; Pilate said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, &#8220;If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge&#8217;s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.19.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Here is your king,&#8221; Pilate said to the Jews.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But they shouted, &#8220;Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Shall I crucify your king?&#8221; Pilate asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"><span class="content">&#8220;We have no king but Caesar,&#8221; the chief priests answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Crucifixion of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.19.16"><span class="content">So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">There they crucified him, and with him two others&#8212;one on each side and Jesus in the middle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, &#8220;Do not write &#8216;The King of the Jews,&#8217; but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Pilate answered, &#8220;What I have written, I have written.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let&#8217;s not tear it,&#8221; they said to one another. &#8220;Let&#8217;s decide by lot who will get it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">&#8220;They divided my clothes among them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">and cast lots for my garment.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:24 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 22:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">So this is what the soldiers did.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother&#8217;s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">Woman </span><span class="ft">does not denote any disrespect.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">here is your son,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and to the disciple, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Here is your mother.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am thirsty.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus&#8217; lips. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When he had received the drink, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is finished.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus&#8217; side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: &#8220;Not one of his bones will be broken,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:36 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 12:46; Num. 9:12; Psalm 34:20</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">and, as another scripture says, &#8220;They will look on the one they have pierced.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:37 </span><span class="ft">Zech. 12:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Burial of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.19.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate&#8217;s permission, he came and took the body away. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.19.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:39 </span><span class="ft">Or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.19.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Taking Jesus&#8217; body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.19.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.19.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Empty Tomb</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, &#8220;They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don&#8217;t know where they have put him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus&#8217; head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus&#8217; body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They asked her, &#8220;Woman, why are you crying?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.20.13"><span class="content">&#8220;They have taken my Lord away,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and I don&#8217;t know where they have put him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He asked her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.20.15"><span class="content">Thinking he was the gardener, she said, &#8220;Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Mary.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.20.16"><span class="content">She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, &#8220;Rabboni!&#8221; (which means &#8220;Teacher&#8221;).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, &#8216;I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: &#8220;I have seen the Lord!&#8221; And she told them that he had said these things to her.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Appears to His Disciples</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace be with you!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Again Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And with that he breathed on them and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Receive the Holy Spirit.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you forgive anyone&#8217;s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Appears to Thomas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Now Thomas (also known as Didymus</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:24 </span><span class="fq">Thomas </span><span class="ft">(Aramaic) and </span><span class="fq">Didymus </span><span class="ft">(Greek) both mean </span><span class="fqa">twin.</span></span></span><span class="content">), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So the other disciples told him, &#8220;We have seen the Lord!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.20.25"><span class="content">But he said to them, &#8220;Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace be with you!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then he said to Thomas, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Thomas said to him, &#8220;My Lord and my God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Jesus told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Purpose of John&#8217;s Gospel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.20.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.20.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But these are written that you may believe</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">may continue to believe</span></span></span><span class="content"> that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Tiberias</span></span></span><span class="content"> It happened this way: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:2 </span><span class="fq">Thomas </span><span class="ft">(Aramaic) and </span><span class="fq">Didymus </span><span class="ft">(Greek) both mean </span><span class="fqa">twin.</span></span></span><span class="content">), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;m going out to fish,&#8221; Simon Peter told them, and they said, &#8220;We&#8217;ll go with you.&#8221; So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He called out to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Friends, haven&#8217;t you any fish?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.21.5"><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, &#8220;It is the Lord!&#8221; As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, &#8220;It is the Lord,&#8221; he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:8 </span><span class="ft">Or about 90 meters</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring some of the fish you have just caught.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come and have breakfast.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> None of the disciples dared ask him, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; They knew it was the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Reinstates Peter</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.21.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, Lord,&#8221; he said, &#8220;you know that I love you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.21.15"><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Feed my lambs.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Again Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Simon son of John, do you love me?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.21.16"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.21.16"><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take care of my sheep.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The third time he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Simon son of John, do you love me?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.21.17"><span class="content">Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you love me?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> He said, &#8220;Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.21.17"><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Feed my sheep.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, &#8220;Lord, who is going to betray you?&#8221;) </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Peter saw him, he asked, &#8220;Lord, what about him?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.</span></span></div>
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