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         <div class="label">114</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 114</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Israel came out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="content">Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Judah became God&#8217;s sanctuary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="content">Israel his dominion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The sea looked and fled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="content">the Jordan turned back;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the mountains leaped like rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="content">the hills like lambs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why was it, sea, that you fled?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="content">Why, Jordan, did you turn back?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="content">you hills, like lambs?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="content">at the presence of the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.114.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who turned the rock into a pool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.114.8"><span class="content">the hard rock into springs of water.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">115</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 115</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Not to us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, not to us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="content">but to your name be the glory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="content">because of your love and faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.115.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why do the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.115.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.115.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.115.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God is in heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.115.3"><span class="content">he does whatever pleases him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.115.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.115.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But their idols are silver and gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.115.4"><span class="content">made by human hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.115.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.115.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They have mouths, but cannot speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.115.5"><span class="content">eyes, but cannot see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.115.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.115.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have ears, but cannot hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.115.6"><span class="content">noses, but cannot smell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.115.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They have hands, but cannot feel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="content">feet, but cannot walk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="content">nor can they utter a sound with their throats.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.115.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Those who make them will be like them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.115.8"><span class="content">and so will all who trust in them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.115.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.115.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All you Israelites, trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.115.9"><span class="content">he is their help and shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.115.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.115.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">House of Aaron, trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.115.10"><span class="content">he is their help and shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.115.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.115.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You who fear him, trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.115.11"><span class="content">he is their help and shield.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.115.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> remembers us and will bless us:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="content">He will bless his people Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="content">he will bless the house of Aaron,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.115.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">he will bless those who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.115.13"><span class="content">small and great alike.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.115.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.115.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> cause you to flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.115.14"><span class="content">both you and your children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.115.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.115.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May you be blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.115.15"><span class="content">the Maker of heaven and earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.115.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.115.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The highest heavens belong to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.115.16"><span class="content">but the earth he has given to mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.115.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.115.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It is not the dead who praise 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="PSA.115.17"><span class="content">those who go down to the place of silence;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.115.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.115.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">it is we who extol 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="PSA.115.18"><span class="content">both now and forevermore.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.115.18"><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">115:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">116</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 116</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.116.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for he heard my voice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.116.1"><span class="content">he heard my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.116.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.116.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Because he turned his ear to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.116.2"><span class="content">I will call on him as long as I live.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.116.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The cords of death entangled me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"><span class="content">the anguish of the grave came over me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"><span class="content">I was overcome by distress and sorrow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.116.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.116.4"><span class="content">&#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, save me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.116.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.116.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is gracious and righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.116.5"><span class="content">our God is full of compassion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.116.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.116.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> protects the unwary;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.116.6"><span class="content">when I was brought low, he saved me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.116.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.116.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Return to your rest, my soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.116.7"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has been good to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.116.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have delivered me from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"><span class="content">my eyes from tears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"><span class="content">my feet from stumbling,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.116.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">that I may walk before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.116.9"><span class="content">in the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.116.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.116.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I trusted in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when I said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.116.10"><span class="content">&#8220;I am greatly afflicted&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.116.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.116.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">in my alarm I said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.116.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Everyone is a liar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.116.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.116.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What shall I return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.116.12"><span class="content">for all his goodness to me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.116.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.116.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will lift up the cup of salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.116.13"><span class="content">and call on 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 v13" data-usfm="PSA.116.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.116.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will fulfill my vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.116.14"><span class="content">in the presence of all his people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.116.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.116.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Precious in the sight of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.116.15"><span class="content">is the death of his faithful servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.116.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Truly I am your servant, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"><span class="content">I serve you just as my mother did;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"><span class="content">you have freed me from my chains.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.116.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice a thank offering to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.116.17"><span class="content">and call on 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 v17" data-usfm="PSA.116.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.116.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will fulfill my vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.116.18"><span class="content">in the presence of all his people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.116.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.116.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">in the courts of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.116.19"><span class="content">in your midst, Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.116.19"><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">116:19 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Final Word: His Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Son is the radiance of God&#8217;s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Son Superior to Angels</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For to which of the angels did God ever say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">&#8220;You are my Son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">today I have become your Father&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:7</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">Or again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">&#8220;I will be his Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">and he will be my Son&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chron. 17:13</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Let all God&#8217;s angels worship him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 32:43 (see Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In speaking of the angels he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">&#8220;He makes his angels spirits,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">and his servants flames of fire.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 104:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But about the Son he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">by anointing you with the oil of joy.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 45:6,7</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He also says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">&#8220;In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">and the heavens are the work of your hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They will perish, but you remain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="content">they will all wear out like a garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will roll them up like a robe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">like a garment they will be changed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">But you remain the same,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">and your years will never end.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 102:25-27</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To which of the angels did God ever say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:13 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 110:1</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning to Pay Attention</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Made Fully Human</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But there is a place where someone has testified:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you are mindful of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">a son of man that you care for him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You made them a little</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them for a little while</span></span></span><span class="content"> lower than the angels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">you crowned them with glory and honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and put everything under their feet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6-8 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 8:4-6</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fv">7 </span><span class="fqa">You made him a little lower than the angels; / you crowned him with glory and honor / </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">and put everything under his feet.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="content">In putting everything under them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> God left nothing that is not subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">in the assembly I will sing your praises.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 22:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;I will put my trust in him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:17</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">And again he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Here am I, and the children God has given me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death&#8212;that is, the devil&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham&#8217;s descendants. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason he had to be made like them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">like his brothers</span></span></span><span class="content"> fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Greater Than Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God&#8217;s house. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moses was faithful as a servant in all God&#8217;s house,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:5 </span><span class="ft">Num. 12:7</span></span></span><span class="content"> bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Christ is faithful as the Son over God&#8217;s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Unbelief</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So, as the Holy Spirit says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">during the time of testing in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">where your ancestors tested and tried me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">though for forty years they saw what I did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why I was angry with that generation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;Their hearts are always going astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">and they have not known my ways.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7-11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called &#8220;Today,&#8221; so that none of you may be hardened by sin&#8217;s deceitfulness. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As has just been said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">because those who heard did not combine it with faith</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">&#8220;So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: &#8220;On the seventh day God rested from all his works.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:2</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And again in the passage above he says, &#8220;They shall never enter my rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God again set a certain day, calling it &#8220;Today.&#8221; This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for anyone who enters God&#8217;s rest also rests from their works,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">labor</span></span></span><span class="content"> just as God did from his. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Nothing in all creation is hidden from God&#8217;s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus the Great High Priest</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:14 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">has gone through the heavens</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are&#8212;yet he did not sin. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let us then approach God&#8217;s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moab Seduces Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger burned against them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, so that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Moses said to Israel&#8217;s judges, &#8220;Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman&#8217;s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Kozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zelophehad&#8217;s Daughters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. They came forward </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah&#8217;s followers, who banded together against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but he died for his own sin and left no sons. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Why should our father&#8217;s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father&#8217;s relatives.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Moses brought their case before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;What Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father&#8217;s relatives and give their father&#8217;s inheritance to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the Israelites, &#8216;If a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father&#8217;s brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If his father had no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, that he may possess it. This is to have the force of law for the Israelites, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joshua to Succeed Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">for when the community rebelled at the waters in the Desert of Zin, both of you disobeyed my command to honor me as holy before their eyes.&#8221; (These were the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people will not be like sheep without a shepherd.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of leadership,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> and lay your hand on him. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Give him some of your authority so the whole Israelite community will obey him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will obtain decisions for him by inquiring of the Urim before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Moses did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> instructed through Moses.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daily Offerings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to them: &#8216;This is the food offering you are to present to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: two lambs a year old without defect, as a regular burnt offering each day. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">together with a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms; also in verses 13, 21 and 29</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 quart or about 1 liter; also in verses 7 and 14</span></span></span><span class="content"> of oil from pressed olives. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The accompanying drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of fermented drink with each lamb. Pour out the drink offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at the sanctuary. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Offer the second lamb at twilight, along with the same kind of grain offering and drink offering that you offer in the morning. This is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sabbath Offerings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms; also in verses 12, 20 and 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour mixed with olive oil. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Monthly Offerings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;On the first of every month, present to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 11 pounds or about 5 kilograms; also in verses 20 and 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and with each lamb, a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil. This is for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With each bull there is to be a drink offering of half a hin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 2 quarts or about 1.9 liters</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wine; with the ram, a third of a hin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 1/3 quarts or about 1.3 liters</span></span></span><span class="content">; and with each lamb, a quarter of a hin. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a sin offering.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Passover</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;On the fourteenth day of the first month the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s Passover is to be held. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days eat bread made without yeast. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Present to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a food offering consisting of a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">With each bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Offer these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">In this way present the food offering every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Festival of Weeks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old as an aroma pleasing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.28.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.28.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.28.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Include one male goat to make atonement for you. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.28.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Offer these together with their drink offerings, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Be sure the animals are without defect.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Solomon said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then he said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.6.4"><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 with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For he said, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8216;Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to my father David, &#8216;You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood&#8212;he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept the promise he made. I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">There I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that he made with the people of Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Prayer of Dedication</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Solomon stood before the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 feet long and wide and 4 1/2 feet high or about 2.3 meters long and wide and 1.4 meters high</span></span></span><span class="content"> and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.6.14"><span class="content">&#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth&#8212;you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it&#8212;as it is today.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, &#8216;You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David come true.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Yet, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God, give attention to your servant&#8217;s prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CH.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel&#8212;being aware of their afflictions and pains, and spreading out their hands toward this temple&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive, and deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know the human heart), </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">so that they will fear you and walk in obedience to you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.6.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2CH.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm&#8212;when they come and pray toward this temple, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2CH.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2CH.6.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2CH.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2CH.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2CH.6.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2CH.6.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;When they sin against you&#8212;for there is no one who does not sin&#8212;and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2CH.6.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, &#8216;We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly&#8217;; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="2CH.6.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name; </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="2CH.6.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="2CH.6.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="2CH.6.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="2CH.6.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="2CH.6.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now arise, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, and come to your resting place,</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="2CH.6.41"><span class="content">you and the ark of your might.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="2CH.6.41"><span class="content">May your priests, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, be clothed with salvation,</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="2CH.6.41"><span class="content">may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="2CH.6.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="2CH.6.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, do not reject your anointed one.</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="2CH.6.42"><span class="content">Remember the great love promised to David your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Dedication of the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> filled the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The priests could not enter the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> filled it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.7.3"><span class="content">&#8220;He is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.7.3"><span class="content">his love endures forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, &#8220;His love endures forever.&#8221; Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him&#8212;a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Appears to Solomon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When Solomon had finished the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and in his own palace, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him at night and said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.7.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, &#8216;You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and go off to serve other gods and worship them, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This temple will become a heap of rubble. All</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:21 </span><span class="ft">See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">And though this temple is now so imposing, all</span></span></span><span class="content"> who pass by will be appalled and say, &#8216;Why has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> done such a thing to this land and to this temple?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">People will answer, &#8216;Because they have forsaken the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them&#8212;that is why he brought all this disaster on them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Other Activities</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and his own palace, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:2 </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 verse 18</span></span></span><span class="content"> had given him, and settled Israelites in them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites). </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land&#8212;whom the Israelites had not destroyed&#8212;to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They were also King Solomon&#8217;s chief officials&#8212;two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Solomon brought Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, &#8220;My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has entered are holy.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals&#8212;the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day&#8217;s requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They did not deviate from the king&#8217;s commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All Solomon&#8217;s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was laid until its completion. So the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was finished.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea. These, with Solomon&#8217;s men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 17 tons or about 15 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon&#8217;s fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. Arriving with a very great caravan&#8212;with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones&#8212;she came to Solomon and talked with him about all she had on her mind. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for him to explain to her. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, as well as the palace he had built, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, the cupbearers in their robes and the burnt offerings he made at</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and the ascent by which he went up to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, she was overwhelmed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She said to the king, &#8220;The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then she gave the king 120 talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">(The servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon brought gold from Ophir; they also brought algumwood</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:10 </span><span class="ft">Probably a variant of </span><span class="fqa">almugwood</span></span></span><span class="content"> and precious stones. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for; he gave her more than she had brought to him. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Splendor</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 tons or about 23 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">not including the revenues brought in by merchants and traders. Also all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the territories brought gold and silver to Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of hammered gold went into each shield. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 pounds or about 3.5 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with pure gold. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All King Solomon&#8217;s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon&#8217;s day. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The king had a fleet of trading ships</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">of ships that could go to Tarshish</span></span></span><span class="content"> manned by Hiram&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Huram, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Hiram</span></span></span><span class="content"> servants. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift&#8212;articles of silver and gold, and robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:25 </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 v26" data-usfm="2CH.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Solomon&#8217;s horses were imported from Egypt and from all other countries.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CH.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Solomon&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Rehoboam answered, &#8220;Come back to me in three days.&#8221; So the people went away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. &#8220;How would you advise me to answer these people?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He asked them, &#8220;What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, &#8216;Lighten the yoke your father put on us&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The young men who had grown up with him replied, &#8220;The people have said to you, &#8216;Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.&#8217; Now tell them, &#8216;My little finger is thicker than my father&#8217;s waist. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, &#8220;Come back to me in three days.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king answered them harshly. Rejecting the advice of the elders, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">he followed the advice of the young men and said, &#8220;My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What share do we have in David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">what part in Jesse&#8217;s son?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">To your tents, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">Look after your own house, David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">So all the Israelites went home. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hadoram, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Adoniram</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.20.1"><span class="content">whoever is led astray by them is not wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A king&#8217;s wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.20.2"><span class="content">those who anger him forfeit their lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It is to one&#8217;s honor to avoid strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.20.3"><span class="content">but every fool is quick to quarrel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Sluggards do not plow in season;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.20.4"><span class="content">so at harvest time they look but find nothing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The purposes of a person&#8217;s heart are deep waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.20.5"><span class="content">but one who has insight draws them out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many claim to have unfailing love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.20.6"><span class="content">but a faithful person who can find?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The righteous lead blameless lives;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.20.7"><span class="content">blessed are their children after them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When a king sits on his throne to judge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.20.8"><span class="content">he winnows out all evil with his eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who can say, &#8220;I have kept my heart pure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.20.9"><span class="content">I am clean and without sin&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Differing weights and differing measures&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.20.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Even small children are known by their actions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.20.11"><span class="content">so is their conduct really pure and upright?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Ears that hear and eyes that see&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.20.12"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.20.13"><span class="content">stay awake and you will have food to spare.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;It&#8217;s no good, it&#8217;s no good!&#8221; says the buyer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.20.14"><span class="content">then goes off and boasts about the purchase.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Gold there is, and rubies in abundance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.20.15"><span class="content">but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.20.16"><span class="content">hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Food gained by fraud tastes sweet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.20.17"><span class="content">but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Plans are established by seeking advice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.20.18"><span class="content">so if you wage war, obtain guidance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A gossip betrays a confidence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.20.19"><span class="content">so avoid anyone who talks too much.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If someone curses their father or mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.20.20"><span class="content">their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">An inheritance claimed too soon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.20.21"><span class="content">will not be blessed at the end.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll pay you back for this wrong!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.20.22"><span class="content">Wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will avenge you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests differing weights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.20.23"><span class="content">and dishonest scales do not please him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s steps are directed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.20.24"><span class="content">How then can anyone understand their own way?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">It is a trap to dedicate something rashly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.20.25"><span class="content">and only later to consider one&#8217;s vows.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">A wise king winnows out the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.20.26"><span class="content">he drives the threshing wheel over them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The human spirit is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">A person&#8217;s words are</span></span></span><span class="content"> the lamp of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.20.27"><span class="content">that sheds light on one&#8217;s inmost being.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Love and faithfulness keep a king safe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.20.28"><span class="content">through love his throne is made secure.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The glory of young men is their strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.20.29"><span class="content">gray hair the splendor of the old.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.20.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Blows and wounds scrub away evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.20.30"><span class="content">and beatings purge the inmost being.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand the king&#8217;s heart is a stream of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.21.1"><span class="content">that he channels toward all who please him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A person may think their own ways are right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.21.2"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> weighs the heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">To do what is right and just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.21.3"><span class="content">is more acceptable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> than sacrifice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Haughty eyes and a proud heart&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.21.4"><span class="content">the unplowed field of the wicked&#8212;produce sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The plans of the diligent lead to profit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.21.5"><span class="content">as surely as haste leads to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">A fortune made by a lying tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.21.6"><span class="content">is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:6 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">vapor for those who seek death</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The violence of the wicked will drag them away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.21.7"><span class="content">for they refuse to do what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The way of the guilty is devious,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.21.8"><span class="content">but the conduct of the innocent is upright.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Better to live on a corner of the roof</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.21.9"><span class="content">than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The wicked crave evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.21.10"><span class="content">their neighbors get no mercy from them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.21.11"><span class="content">by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Righteous One</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The righteous person</span></span></span><span class="content"> takes note of the house of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.21.12"><span class="content">and brings the wicked to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.21.13"><span class="content">will also cry out and not be answered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">A gift given in secret soothes anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.21.14"><span class="content">and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.21.15"><span class="content">but terror to evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever strays from the path of prudence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.21.16"><span class="content">comes to rest in the company of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.21.17"><span class="content">whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The wicked become a ransom for the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.21.18"><span class="content">and the unfaithful for the upright.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Better to live in a desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.21.19"><span class="content">than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The wise store up choice food and olive oil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.21.20"><span class="content">but fools gulp theirs down.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Whoever pursues righteousness and love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.21.21"><span class="content">finds life, prosperity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">righteousness</span></span></span><span class="content"> and honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">One who is wise can go up against the city of the mighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.21.22"><span class="content">and pull down the stronghold in which they trust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Those who guard their mouths and their tongues</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.21.23"><span class="content">keep themselves from calamity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The proud and arrogant person&#8212;&#8220;Mocker&#8221; is his name&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.21.24"><span class="content">behaves with insolent fury.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.21.25"><span class="content">because his hands refuse to work.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">All day long he craves for more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.21.26"><span class="content">but the righteous give without sparing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.21.27"><span class="content">how much more so when brought with evil intent!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A false witness will perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.21.28"><span class="content">but a careful listener will testify successfully.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The wicked put up a bold front,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.21.29"><span class="content">but the upright give thought to their ways.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.21.30"><span class="content">that can succeed 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 v30" data-usfm="PRO.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The horse is made ready for the day of battle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.21.31"><span class="content">but victory rests with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Obadiah&#8217;s Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The vision of Obadiah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Edom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">We have heard a message from 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="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">An envoy was sent to the nations to say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise, let us go against her for battle&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will make you small among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="content">you will be utterly despised.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The pride of your heart has deceived you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who live in the clefts of the rocks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Sela</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">and make your home on the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who say to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">&#8216;Who can bring me down to the ground?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though you soar like the eagle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">and make your nest among the stars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">from there I will bring you down,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><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 v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If thieves came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">if robbers in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">oh, what a disaster awaits you!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not steal only as much as they wanted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">If grape pickers came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not leave a few grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But how Esau will be ransacked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">his hidden treasures pillaged!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All your allies will force you to the border;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">your friends will deceive and overpower you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">but you will not detect it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">&#8220;will I not destroy the wise men of Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">and everyone in Esau&#8217;s mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">will be cut down in the slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be covered with shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be destroyed forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On the day you stood aloof</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">while strangers carried off his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and foreigners entered his gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and cast lots for Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">you were like one of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You should not gloat over your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of his misfortune,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor rejoice over the people of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor boast so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You should not march through the gates of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor gloat over them in their calamity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor seize their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You should not wait at the crossroads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">to cut down their fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">nor hand over their survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;The day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">for all nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">As you have done, it will be done to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">your deeds will return upon your own head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Just as you drank on my holy hill,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">so all the nations will drink continually;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">they will drink and drink</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">and be as if they had never been.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">it will be holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">and Jacob will possess his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob will be a fire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and Joseph a flame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">Esau will be stubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and they will set him on fire and destroy him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">There will be no survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">from Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">People from the Negev will occupy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the mountains of Esau,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and people from the foothills will possess</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the land of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and Benjamin will possess Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the land as far as Zarephath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the towns of the Negev.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Deliverers will go up on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from</span></span></span><span class="content"> Mount Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">to govern the mountains of Esau.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">And the kingdom will be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For John baptized with</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">water, but in a few days you will be baptized with</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Holy Spirit.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then they gathered around him and asked him, &#8220;Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He said to them: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Men of Galilee,&#8221; they said, &#8220;why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day&#8217;s walk</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 5/8 mile or about 1 kilometer</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the city. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;Brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 6:3; 11:29; 12:17; 16:40; 18:18, 27; 21:7, 17; 28:14, 15.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He was one of our number and shared in our ministry.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">(With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;For,&#8221; said Peter, &#8220;it is written in the Book of Psalms:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;May his place be deserted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">let there be no one to dwell in it,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 69:25</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;May another take his place of leadership.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 109:8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">beginning from John&#8217;s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So they nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then they prayed, &#8220;Lord, you know everyone&#8217;s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 11</span></span></span><span class="content"> as the Spirit enabled them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Utterly amazed, they asked: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t all these who are speaking Galileans? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Roman province by that name</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs&#8212;we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, &#8220;What does this mean?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Some, however, made fun of them and said, &#8220;They have had too much wine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Addresses the Crowd</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: &#8220;Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It&#8217;s only nine in the morning! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;In the last days, God says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit on all people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">Your sons and daughters will prophesy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">your young men will see visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">your old men will dream dreams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even on my servants, both men and women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit in those days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">and they will prophesy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will show wonders in the heavens above</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">and signs on the earth below,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">blood and fire and billows of smoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The sun will be turned to darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">and the moon to blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And everyone who calls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="content">on the name of the Lord will be saved.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:21 </span><span class="ft">Joel 2:28-32</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This man was handed over to you by God&#8217;s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of those not having the law </span><span class="ft">(that is, Gentiles)</span></span></span><span class="content"> put him to death by nailing him to the cross. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">David said about him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I saw the Lord always before me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">Because he is at my right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">I will not be shaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="content">my body also will rest in hope,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="content">you will not let your holy one see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You have made known to me the paths of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="content">you will fill me with joy in your presence.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:28 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 16:8-11 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.2.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 110:1</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.2.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.2.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, &#8220;Brothers, what shall we do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.2.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.2.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Peter replied, &#8220;Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.2.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off&#8212;for all whom the Lord our God will call.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.2.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.2.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, &#8220;Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.2.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fellowship of the Believers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.2.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.2.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They devoted themselves to the apostles&#8217; teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.2.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.2.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">All the believers were together and had everything in common. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.2.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.2.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.2.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.</span></span></div>
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