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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 19</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 19:1-14 is numbered 19:2-15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The heavens declare the glory of God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.19.1"><span class="content">the skies proclaim the work of his hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Day after day they pour forth speech;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.19.2"><span class="content">night after night they reveal knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They have no speech, they use no words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.19.3"><span class="content">no sound is heard from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Yet their voice</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:4 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Jerome and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">measuring line</span></span></span><span class="content"> goes out into all the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"><span class="content">their words to the ends of the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"><span class="content">In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.19.5"><span class="content">like a champion rejoicing to run his course.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">It rises at one end of the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"><span class="content">and makes its circuit to the other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"><span class="content">nothing is deprived of its warmth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is perfect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="content">refreshing the soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="content">The statutes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are trustworthy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="content">making wise the simple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The precepts of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="content">giving joy to the heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="content">The commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are radiant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="content">giving light to the eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="content">enduring forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="content">The decrees of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are firm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="content">and all of them are righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They are more precious than gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="content">than much pure gold;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="content">they are sweeter than honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="content">than honey from the honeycomb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">By them your servant is warned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.19.11"><span class="content">in keeping them there is great reward.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But who can discern their own errors?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.19.12"><span class="content">Forgive my hidden faults.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Keep your servant also from willful sins;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="content">may they not rule over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="content">Then I will be blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="content">innocent of great transgression.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.19.14"><span class="content">be pleasing in your sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.19.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my Rock and my Redeemer.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="PSA.20">
         <div class="label">20</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 20</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 20:1-9 is numbered 20:2-10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answer you when you are in distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.20.1"><span class="content">may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May he send you help from the sanctuary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.20.2"><span class="content">and grant you support from Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May he remember all your sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.20.3"><span class="content">and accept your burnt offerings.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May he give you the desire of your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.20.4"><span class="content">and make all your plans succeed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May we shout for joy over your victory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.20.5"><span class="content">and lift up our banners in the name of our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.20.5"><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> grant all your requests.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now this I know:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.20.6"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives victory to his anointed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.20.6"><span class="content">He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.20.6"><span class="content">with the victorious power of his right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Some trust in chariots and some in horses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.20.7"><span class="content">but we trust in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are brought to their knees and fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.20.8"><span class="content">but we rise up and stand firm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, give victory to the king!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.20.9"><span class="content">Answer us when we call!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Submission to Governing Authorities</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the one in authority is God&#8217;s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God&#8217;s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God&#8217;s servants, who give their full time to governing. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love Fulfills the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The commandments, &#8220;You shall not commit adultery,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not murder,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not steal,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not covet,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21</span></span></span><span class="content"> and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day Is Near</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Weak and the Strong</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">One person&#8217;s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who are you to judge someone else&#8217;s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 13, 15 and 21.</span></span></span><span class="content">? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God&#8217;s judgment seat. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;As surely as I live,&#8217; says the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">&#8216;every knee will bow before me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">every tongue will acknowledge God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:11 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 45:23</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:23 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Abraham</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the descendants of Heth</span></span></span><span class="content"> There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After Abraham&#8217;s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ishmael&#8217;s Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is the account of the family line of Abraham&#8217;s son Ishmael, whom Sarah&#8217;s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Mishma, Dumah, Massa, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lived to the east of</span></span></span><span class="content"> all the tribes related to them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob and Esau</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.25.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is the account of the family line of Abraham&#8217;s son Isaac.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.25.19"><span class="content">Abraham became the father of Isaac, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:20 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and sister of Laban the Aramean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.25.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaac prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, &#8220;Why is this happening to me?&#8221; So she went to inquire of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to her,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Two nations are in your womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">and two peoples from within you will be separated;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">one people will be stronger than the other,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">and the older will serve the younger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:25 </span><span class="fq">Esau </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fq">hairy</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau&#8217;s heel; so he was named Jacob.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:26 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel, </span><span class="ft">a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.25.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.25.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He said to Jacob, &#8220;Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I&#8217;m famished!&#8221; (That is why he was also called Edom.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:30 </span><span class="fq">Edom </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">red</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.25.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jacob replied, &#8220;First sell me your birthright.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.25.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look, I am about to die,&#8221; Esau said. &#8220;What good is the birthright to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.25.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But Jacob said, &#8220;Swear to me first.&#8221; So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.25.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.25.34"><span class="content">So Esau despised his birthright.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaac and Abimelek</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now there was a famine in the land&#8212;besides the previous famine in Abraham&#8217;s time&#8212;and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Isaac and said, &#8220;Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Isaac stayed in Gerar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, &#8220;She is my sister,&#8221; because he was afraid to say, &#8220;She is my wife.&#8221; He thought, &#8220;The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, &#8220;She is really your wife! Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="content">Isaac answered him, &#8220;Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek said, &#8220;What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: &#8220;Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So all the wells that his father&#8217;s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek said to Isaac, &#8220;Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Isaac&#8217;s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, &#8220;The water is ours!&#8221; So he named the well Esek,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:20 </span><span class="fq">Esek </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">dispute</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because they disputed with him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:21 </span><span class="fq">Sitnah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">opposition.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:22 </span><span class="fq">Rehoboth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">room</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given us room and we will flourish in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.26.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">From there he went up to Beersheba. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">That night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him and said, &#8220;I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.26.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.26.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Isaac asked them, &#8220;Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.26.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;We saw clearly that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with you; so we said, &#8216;There ought to be a sworn agreement between us&#8217;&#8212;between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.26.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">that you will do us no harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.26.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.26.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.26.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.26.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.26.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">That day Isaac&#8217;s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve found water!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.26.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He called it Shibah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:33 </span><span class="fq">Shibah </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">oath </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">seven.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:33 </span><span class="fq">Beersheba </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">well of the oath </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fqa">well of seven.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Takes Esau&#8217;s Blessing</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.26.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.26.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.26.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch27" data-usfm="GEN.27">
         <div class="label">27</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, &#8220;My son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Isaac said, &#8220;I am now an old man and don&#8217;t know the day of my death. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, get your equipment&#8212;your quiver and bow&#8212;and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Rebekah said to her son Jacob, &#8220;Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8216;Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> before I die.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, &#8220;But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His mother said to him, &#8220;My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He went to his father and said, &#8220;My father.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;Who is it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jacob said to his father, &#8220;I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How did you find it so quickly, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave me success,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Isaac said to Jacob, &#8220;Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, &#8220;The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you really my son Esau?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="content">&#8220;I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.27.25"><span class="content">Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then his father Isaac said to him, &#8220;Come here, my son, and kiss me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Ah, the smell of my son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">is like the smell of a field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">May God give you heaven&#8217;s dew</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">and earth&#8217;s richness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">an abundance of grain and new wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">May nations serve you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and peoples bow down to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">Be lord over your brothers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">May those who curse you be cursed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and those who bless you be blessed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.27.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father&#8217;s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.27.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, &#8220;My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.27.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">His father Isaac asked him, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="content">&#8220;I am your son,&#8221; he answered, &#8220;your firstborn, Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.27.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Isaac trembled violently and said, &#8220;Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him&#8212;and indeed he will be blessed!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.27.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.27.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Esau heard his father&#8217;s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, &#8220;Bless me&#8212;me too, my father!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.27.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.27.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But he said, &#8220;Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.27.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.27.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Esau said, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t he rightly named Jacob</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:36 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel</span><span class="ft">, a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fq">he takes advantage of </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content">? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he&#8217;s taken my blessing!&#8221; Then he asked, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you reserved any blessing for me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.27.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.27.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Isaac answered Esau, &#8220;I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.27.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.27.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Esau said to his father, &#8220;Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!&#8221; Then Esau wept aloud.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.27.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">His father Isaac answered him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">&#8220;Your dwelling will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">away from the earth&#8217;s richness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">away from the dew of heaven above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">You will live by the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">and you will serve your brother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">But when you grow restless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">you will throw his yoke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">from off your neck.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.27.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, &#8220;The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.27.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.27.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, &#8220;Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.27.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.27.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Stay with him for a while until your brother&#8217;s fury subsides. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.27.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I&#8217;ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.27.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.27.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, &#8220;I&#8217;m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="JDG.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon Defeats the Midianites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, &#8216;My own strength has saved me.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now announce to the army, &#8216;Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, &#8216;This one shall go with you,&#8217; he shall go; but if I say, &#8216;This one shall not go with you,&#8217; he shall not go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told him, &#8220;Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="content">Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">During that night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.&#8221; So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. &#8220;I had a dream,&#8221; he was saying. &#8220;A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His friend responded, &#8220;This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, &#8220;Get up! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given the Midianite camp into your hands.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Watch me,&#8221; he told them. &#8220;Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, &#8216;For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, &#8220;A sword for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, &#8220;Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="content">So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zebah and Zalmunna</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, &#8220;Why have you treated us like this? Why didn&#8217;t you call us when you went to fight Midian?&#8221; And they challenged him vigorously.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But he answered them, &#8220;What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren&#8217;t the gleanings of Ephraim&#8217;s grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?&#8221; At this, their resentment against him subsided.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to the men of Sukkoth, &#8220;Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But the officials of Sukkoth said, &#8220;Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your troops?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Gideon replied, &#8220;Just for that, when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From there he went up to Peniel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 9 and 17</span></span></span><span class="content"> and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Sukkoth had. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So he said to the men of Peniel, &#8220;When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He caught a young man of Sukkoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Sukkoth, the elders of the town. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, &#8220;Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, &#8216;Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, &#8220;What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.8.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Men like you,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;each one with the bearing of a prince.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon replied, &#8220;Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, &#8220;Kill them!&#8221; But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Zebah and Zalmunna said, &#8220;Come, do it yourself. &#8216;As is the man, so is his strength.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels&#8217; necks.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon&#8217;s Ephod</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The Israelites said to Gideon, &#8220;Rule over us&#8212;you, your son and your grandson&#8212;because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.8.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But Gideon told them, &#8220;I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will rule over you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.&#8221; (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be glad to give them.&#8221; So they spread out a garment, and each of them threw a ring from his plunder onto it. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:26 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 43 pounds or about 20 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels&#8217; necks. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon&#8217;s Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon&#8217;s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">and did not remember the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abimelek</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother&#8217;s brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother&#8217;s clan, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask all the citizens of Shechem, &#8216;Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal&#8217;s sons rule over you, or just one man?&#8217; Remember, I am your flesh and blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, &#8220;He is related to us.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They gave him seventy shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 3/4 pounds or about 800 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He went to his father&#8217;s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them, &#8220;Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, &#8216;Be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;But the olive tree answered, &#8216;Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Next, the trees said to the fig tree, &#8216;Come and be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But the fig tree replied, &#8216;Should I give up my fruit, so good and sweet, to hold sway over the trees?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the trees said to the vine, &#8216;Come and be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But the vine answered, &#8216;Should I give up my wine, which cheers both gods and humans, to hold sway over the trees?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, &#8216;Come and be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;The thornbush said to the trees, &#8216;If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelek king? Have you been fair to Jerub-Baal and his family? Have you treated him as he deserves? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Remember that my father fought for you and risked his life to rescue you from the hand of Midian. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But today you have revolted against my father&#8217;s family. You have murdered his seventy sons on a single stone and have made Abimelek, the son of his female slave, king over the citizens of Shechem because he is related to you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So have you acted honorably and in good faith toward Jerub-Baal and his family today? If you have, may Abimelek be your joy, and may you be his, too! </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But if you have not, let fire come out from Abimelek and consume you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and let fire come out from you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and consume Abimelek!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Jotham fled, escaping to Beer, and he lived there because he was afraid of his brother Abimelek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After Abimelek had governed Israel three years, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">God stirred up animosity between Abimelek and the citizens of Shechem so that they acted treacherously against Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal&#8217;s seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In opposition to him these citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops to ambush and rob everyone who passed by, and this was reported to Abimelek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Now Gaal son of Ebed moved with his clan into Shechem, and its citizens put their confidence in him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">After they had gone out into the fields and gathered the grapes and trodden them, they held a festival in the temple of their god. While they were eating and drinking, they cursed Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Gaal son of Ebed said, &#8220;Who is Abimelek, and why should we Shechemites be subject to him? Isn&#8217;t he Jerub-Baal&#8217;s son, and isn&#8217;t Zebul his deputy? Serve the family of Hamor, Shechem&#8217;s father! Why should we serve Abimelek? </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If only this people were under my command! Then I would get rid of him. I would say to Abimelek, &#8216;Call out your whole army!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him.&#8221; Then he said to Abimelek, &#8220;Call out your whole army!&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When Zebul the governor of the city heard what Gaal son of Ebed said, he was very angry. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Under cover he sent messengers to Abimelek, saying, &#8220;Gaal son of Ebed and his clan have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In the morning at sunrise, advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, seize the opportunity to attack them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">So Abimelek and all his troops set out by night and took up concealed positions near Shechem in four companies. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Now Gaal son of Ebed had gone out and was standing at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelek and his troops came out from their hiding place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.9.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, &#8220;Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="content">Zebul replied, &#8220;You mistake the shadows of the mountains for men.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.9.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But Gaal spoke up again: &#8220;Look, people are coming down from the central hill,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:37 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for this phrase means </span><span class="fqa">the navel of the earth.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners&#8217; tree.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.9.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.9.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Zebul said to him, &#8220;Where is your big talk now, you who said, &#8216;Who is Abimelek that we should be subject to him?&#8217; Aren&#8217;t these the men you ridiculed? Go out and fight them!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.9.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.9.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">So Gaal led out</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:39 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Gaal went out in the sight of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the citizens of Shechem and fought Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.9.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Abimelek chased him all the way to the entrance of the gate, and many were killed as they fled. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JDG.9.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his clan out of Shechem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JDG.9.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JDG.9.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The next day the people of Shechem went out to the fields, and this was reported to Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JDG.9.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">So he took his men, divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose to attack them. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JDG.9.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Abimelek and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance of the city gate. Then two companies attacked those in the fields and struck them down. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JDG.9.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JDG.9.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there, </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JDG.9.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, &#8220;Quick! Do what you have seen me do!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JDG.9.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Next Abimelek went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JDG.9.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women&#8212;all the people of the city&#8212;had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JDG.9.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire, </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JDG.9.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, &#8220;Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can&#8217;t say, &#8216;A woman killed him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So his servant ran him through, and he died. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="JDG.9.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="JDG.9.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Tola</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jair</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">called the settlements of Jair</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and no longer served him, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Midianites</span></span></span><span class="content"> oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the Israelites said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And he could bear Israel&#8217;s misery no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, &#8220;Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Gilead&#8217;s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. &#8220;You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,&#8221; they said, &#8220;because you are the son of another woman.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some time later, when the Ammonites were fighting against Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; they said, &#8220;be our commander, so we can fight the Ammonites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah said to them, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you hate me and drive me from my father&#8217;s house? Why do you come to me now, when you&#8217;re in trouble?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The elders of Gilead said to him, &#8220;Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be head over all of us who live in Gilead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jephthah answered, &#8220;Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives them to me&#8212;will I really be your head?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The elders of Gilead replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Mizpah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: &#8220;What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah&#8217;s messengers, &#8220;When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jephthah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.11.15"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> and on to Kadesh. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, &#8216;Give us permission to go through your country,&#8217; but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom and Moab, passed along the eastern side of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, &#8216;Let us pass through your country to our own place.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Sihon, however, did not trust Israel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">however, would not make an agreement for Israel</span></span></span><span class="content"> to pass through his territory. He mustered all his troops and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel&#8217;s hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now since the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over? </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Will you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has given us, we will possess. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For three hundred years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn&#8217;t you retake them during that time? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The king of Ammon, however, paid no attention to the message Jephthah sent him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And Jephthah made a vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;If you give the Ammonites into my hands, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.11.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into his hands. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.11.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, &#8220;Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that I cannot break.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.11.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;My father,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;you have given your word to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Do to me just as you promised, now that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.11.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But grant me this one request,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.11.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.11.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;You may go,&#8221; he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.11.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.11.39"><span class="content">From this comes the Israelite tradition </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.11.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;My eyes have seen all this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="content">my ears have heard and understood it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">What you know, I also know;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="content">I am not inferior to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I desire to speak to the Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="content">and to argue my case with God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You, however, smear me with lies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="content">you are worthless physicians, all of you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If only you would be altogether silent!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="content">For you, that would be wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear now my argument;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="content">listen to the pleas of my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Will you speak wickedly on God&#8217;s behalf?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="content">Will you speak deceitfully for him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Will you show him partiality?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="content">Will you argue the case for God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Would it turn out well if he examined you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="content">Could you deceive him as you might deceive a mortal?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He would surely call you to account</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="content">if you secretly showed partiality.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Would not his splendor terrify you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="content">Would not the dread of him fall on you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="content">your defenses are defenses of clay.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Keep silent and let me speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="content">then let come to me what may.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why do I put myself in jeopardy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="content">and take my life in my hands?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="content">I will surely</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">He will surely slay me; I have no hope&#8212; / yet I will</span></span></span><span class="content"> defend my ways to his face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="content">for no godless person would dare come before him!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Listen carefully to what I say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="content">let my words ring in your ears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now that I have prepared my case,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="content">I know I will be vindicated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Can anyone bring charges against me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="content">If so, I will be silent and die.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Only grant me these two things, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="content">and then I will not hide from you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Withdraw your hand far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="content">and stop frightening me with your terrors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then summon me and I will answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="content">or let me speak, and you reply to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">How many wrongs and sins have I committed?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="content">Show me my offense and my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Why do you hide your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="content">and consider me your enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Will you torment a windblown leaf?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="content">Will you chase after dry chaff?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For you write down bitter things against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="content">and make me reap the sins of my youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You fasten my feet in shackles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">you keep close watch on all my paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">by putting marks on the soles of my feet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;So man wastes away like something rotten,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.13.28"><span class="content">like a garment eaten by moths.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Mortals, born of woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">are of few days and full of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They spring up like flowers and wither away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do you fix your eye on them?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">Will you bring them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:3 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content"> before you for judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who can bring what is pure from the impure?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">No one!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s days are determined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">you have decreed the number of his months</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">and have set limits he cannot exceed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So look away from him and let him alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;At least there is hope for a tree:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">If it is cut down, it will sprout again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">and its new shoots will not fail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Its roots may grow old in the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">and its stump die in the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet at the scent of water it will bud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">and put forth shoots like a plant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But a man dies and is laid low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">he breathes his last and is no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As the water of a lake dries up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so he lies down and does not rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">till the heavens are no more, people will not awake</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">or be roused from their sleep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If only you would hide me in the grave</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">and conceal me till your anger has passed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">If only you would set me a time</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">and then remember me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If someone dies, will they live again?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">All the days of my hard service</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">I will wait for my renewal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">release</span></span></span><span class="content"> to come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will call and I will answer you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">you will long for the creature your hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Surely then you will count my steps</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">but not keep track of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My offenses will be sealed up in a bag;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">you will cover over my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;But as a mountain erodes and crumbles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">and as a rock is moved from its place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">as water wears away stones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">and torrents wash away the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">so you destroy a person&#8217;s hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You overpower them once for all, and they are gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">you change their countenance and send them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If their children are honored, they do not know it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They feel but the pain of their own bodies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="content">and mourn only for themselves.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against the Nations</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Come near, you nations, and listen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">pay attention, you peoples!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">the world, and all that comes out of it!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is angry with all nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">his wrath is on all their armies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">He will totally destroy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.</span></span></span><span class="content"> them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">he will give them over to slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Their slain will be thrown out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="content">their dead bodies will stink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="content">the mountains will be soaked with their blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">All the stars in the sky will be dissolved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">all the starry host will fall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">like withered leaves from the vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">like shriveled figs from the fig tree.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="content">see, it descends in judgment on Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="content">the people I have totally destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is bathed in blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">it is covered with fat&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">the blood of lambs and goats,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">fat from the kidneys of rams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a sacrifice in Bozrah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And the wild oxen will fall with them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">the bull calves and the great bulls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">Their land will be drenched with blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">and the dust will be soaked with fat.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a day of vengeance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.34.8"><span class="content">a year of retribution, to uphold Zion&#8217;s cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.34.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Edom&#8217;s streams will be turned into pitch,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="content">her dust into burning sulfur;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="content">her land will become blazing pitch!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">It will not be quenched night or day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">its smoke will rise forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">From generation to generation it will lie desolate;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">no one will ever pass through it again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The desert owl</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and screech owl</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will possess it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">the great owl</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the raven will nest there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">God will stretch out over Edom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">the measuring line of chaos</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">and the plumb line of desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.34.12"><span class="content">all her princes will vanish away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Thorns will overrun her citadels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">nettles and brambles her strongholds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">She will become a haunt for jackals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">a home for owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Desert creatures will meet with hyenas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">and wild goats will bleat to each other;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">there the night creatures will also lie down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">and find for themselves places of rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The owl will nest there and lay eggs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">she will hatch them, and care for her young</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">under the shadow of her wings;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">there also the falcons will gather,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">each with its mate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Look in the scroll of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and read:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">None of these will be missing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">not one will lack her mate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">For it is his mouth that has given the order,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">and his Spirit will gather them together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He allots their portions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="content">his hand distributes them by measure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="content">They will possess it forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="content">and dwell there from generation to generation.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">35</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joy of the Redeemed</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The desert and the parched land will be glad;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.35.1"><span class="content">the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.35.1"><span class="content">Like the crocus, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">it will burst into bloom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.35.2"><span class="content">it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.35.2"><span class="content">The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.35.2"><span class="content">the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.35.2"><span class="content">they will see the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.35.2"><span class="content">the splendor of our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.35.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Strengthen the feeble hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.35.3"><span class="content">steady the knees that give way;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.35.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">say to those with fearful hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.35.4"><span class="content">&#8220;Be strong, do not fear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.35.4"><span class="content">your God will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.35.4"><span class="content">he will come with vengeance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.35.4"><span class="content">with divine retribution</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.35.4"><span class="content">he will come to save you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.35.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then will the eyes of the blind be opened</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.35.5"><span class="content">and the ears of the deaf unstopped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then will the lame leap like a deer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.35.6"><span class="content">and the mute tongue shout for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.35.6"><span class="content">Water will gush forth in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.35.6"><span class="content">and streams in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.35.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The burning sand will become a pool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.35.7"><span class="content">the thirsty ground bubbling springs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.35.7"><span class="content">In the haunts where jackals once lay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.35.7"><span class="content">grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.35.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And a highway will be there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.35.8"><span class="content">it will be called the Way of Holiness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.35.8"><span class="content">it will be for those who walk on that Way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.35.8"><span class="content">The unclean will not journey on it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.35.8"><span class="content">wicked fools will not go about on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No lion will be there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.35.9"><span class="content">nor any ravenous beast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.35.9"><span class="content">they will not be found there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.35.9"><span class="content">But only the redeemed will walk there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.35.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and those the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rescued will return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.35.10"><span class="content">They will enter Zion with singing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.35.10"><span class="content">everlasting joy will crown their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.35.10"><span class="content">Gladness and joy will overtake them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.35.10"><span class="content">and sorrow and sighing will flee away.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah&#8217;s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer&#8217;s Field, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.36.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The field commander said to them, &#8220;Tell Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.36.4"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You say you have counsel and might for war&#8212;but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But if you say to me, &#8220;We are depending on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God&#8221;&#8212;isn&#8217;t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, &#8220;You must worship before this altar&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.36.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses&#8212;if you can put riders on them! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master&#8217;s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.36.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, &#8220;Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don&#8217;t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.36.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the commander replied, &#8220;Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall&#8212;who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.36.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, &#8220;Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.36.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.36.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.36.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.36.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.36.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">until I come and take you to a land like your own&#8212;a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.36.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.36.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver us.&#8217; Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.36.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.36.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deliver Jerusalem from my hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.36.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.36.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, &#8220;Do not answer him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.36.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.36.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Illness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Isaiah: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell Hezekiah, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sign to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what he has promised: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;In the prime of my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">must I go through the gates of death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">and be robbed of the rest of my years?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will not again see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">in the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">no longer will I look on my fellow man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">or be with those who now dwell in this world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Like a shepherd&#8217;s tent my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">has been pulled down and taken from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">Like a weaver I have rolled up my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">and he has cut me off from the loom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I waited patiently till dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">but like a lion he broke all my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I cried like a swift or thrush,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I moaned like a mourning dove.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But what can I say?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">I will walk humbly all my years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">because of this anguish of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Lord, by such things people live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and my spirit finds life in them too.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">You restored me to health</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and let me live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely it was for my benefit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">that I suffered such anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">In your love you kept me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">from the pit of destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">you have put all my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">behind your back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the grave cannot praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">death cannot sing your praise;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">those who go down to the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">cannot hope for your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The living, the living&#8212;they praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">as I am doing today;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">parents tell their children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">about your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">and we will sing with stringed instruments</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">all the days of our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaiah had said, &#8220;Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hezekiah had asked, &#8220;What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">39</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Envoys From Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses&#8212;the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil&#8212;his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.39.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, &#8220;What did those men say, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="content">&#8220;From a distant land,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. &#8220;They came to me from Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The prophet asked, &#8220;What did they see in your palace?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="content">&#8220;They saw everything in my palace,&#8221; Hezekiah said. &#8220;There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, &#8220;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty: </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> you have spoken is good,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. For he thought, &#8220;There will be peace and security in my lifetime.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, &#8220;Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you see all these great buildings?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> replied Jesus. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out that no one deceives you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Many will come in my name, claiming, &#8216;I am he,&#8217; and will deceive many.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you see &#8216;the abomination that causes desolation&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">standing where it</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">does not belong&#8212;let the reader understand&#8212;then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Pray that this will not take place in winter,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now&#8212;and never to be equaled again.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At that time if anyone says to you, &#8216;Look, here is the Messiah!&#8217; or, &#8216;Look, there he is!&#8217; do not believe it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But in those days, following that distress,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;the sun will be darkened,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the moon will not give its light;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the stars will fall from the sky,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">13:25 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 13:10; 34:4  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">is near, right at the door.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day and Hour Unknown</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Be on guard! Be alert</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:33 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">alert and pray</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">! You do not know when that time will come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It&#8217;s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.13.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back&#8212;whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What I say to you, I say to everyone: &#8216;Watch!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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