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            <div class="m"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Er and Onan were sons of Judah, but they died in Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.26.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The descendants of Judah by their clans were:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.26.20"><span class="content">through Shelah, the Shelanite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.26.20"><span class="content">through Perez, the Perezite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.26.20"><span class="content">through Zerah, the Zerahite clan.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The descendants of Perez were:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.26.21"><span class="content">through Hezron, the Hezronite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.26.21"><span class="content">through Hamul, the Hamulite clan.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.26.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">These were the clans of Judah; those numbered were 76,500.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.26.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The descendants of Issachar by their clans were:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.26.23"><span class="content">through Tola, the Tolaite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.26.23"><span class="content">through Puah, the Puite</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:23 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 1 Chron. 7:1); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">through Puvah, the Punite</span></span></span><span class="content"> clan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.26.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">through Jashub, the Jashubite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.26.24"><span class="content">through Shimron, the Shimronite clan.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.26.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">These were the clans of Issachar; those numbered were 64,300.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.26.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The descendants of Zebulun by their clans were:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.26.26"><span class="content">through Sered, the Seredite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.26.26"><span class="content">through Elon, the Elonite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.26.26"><span class="content">through Jahleel, the Jahleelite clan.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.26.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">These were the clans of Zebulun; those numbered were 60,500.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.26.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The descendants of Joseph by their clans through Manasseh and Ephraim were:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.26.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.26.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The descendants of Manasseh:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.26.29"><span class="content">through Makir, the Makirite clan (Makir was the father of Gilead);</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.26.29"><span class="content">through Gilead, the Gileadite clan.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.26.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.26.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">These were the descendants of Gilead:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.26.30"><span class="content">through Iezer, the Iezerite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.26.30"><span class="content">through Helek, the Helekite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.26.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.26.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">through Asriel, the Asrielite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.26.31"><span class="content">through Shechem, the Shechemite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.26.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.26.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">through Shemida, the Shemidaite clan;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.26.32"><span class="content">through Hepher, the Hepherite clan.</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.26.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.26.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">(Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons; he had only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah.)</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.26.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.26.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">These were the clans of Manasseh; those numbered were 52,700.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Preparations for Building the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 2:1 is numbered 1:18, and 2:2-18 is numbered 2:1-17.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and a royal palace for himself. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Solomon sent this message to Hiram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Huram, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Hiram </span><span class="ft">also in verses 11 and 12</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Tyre:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.2.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, whom my father David provided.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Send me also cedar, juniper and algum</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably a variant of </span><span class="fqa">almug</span></span></span><span class="content"> logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,200 metric tons of wheat</span></span></span><span class="content"> of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 3,000 tons or about 2,700 metric tons of barley</span></span></span><span class="content"> of barley, twenty thousand baths</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.2.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves his people, he has made you their king.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And Hiram added:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and a palace for himself.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Solomon took a census of all the foreigners residing in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">100</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 100</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm. For giving grateful praise.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.100.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Shout for joy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.100.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.100.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with gladness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.100.2"><span class="content">come before him with joyful songs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.100.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.100.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.100.3"><span class="content">It is he who made us, and we are his</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">100:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and not we ourselves</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.100.3"><span class="content">we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.100.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.100.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Enter his gates with thanksgiving</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.100.4"><span class="content">and his courts with praise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.100.4"><span class="content">give thanks to him and praise his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.100.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.100.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is good and his love endures forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.100.5"><span class="content">his faithfulness continues through all generations.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">101</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 101</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.101.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will sing of your love and justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.101.1"><span class="content">to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I will sing praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.101.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.101.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will be careful to lead a blameless life&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.101.2"><span class="content">when will you come to me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.101.2"><span class="content">I will conduct the affairs of my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.101.2"><span class="content">with a blameless heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.101.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.101.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will not look with approval</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.101.3"><span class="content">on anything that is vile.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.101.3"><span class="content">I hate what faithless people do;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.101.3"><span class="content">I will have no part in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.101.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.101.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The perverse of heart shall be far from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.101.4"><span class="content">I will have nothing to do with what is evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.101.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.101.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.101.5"><span class="content">I will put to silence;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.101.5"><span class="content">whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.101.5"><span class="content">I will not tolerate.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.101.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.101.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.101.6"><span class="content">that they may dwell with me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.101.6"><span class="content">the one whose walk is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.101.6"><span class="content">will minister to me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.101.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.101.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one who practices deceit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.101.7"><span class="content">will dwell in my house;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.101.7"><span class="content">no one who speaks falsely</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.101.7"><span class="content">will stand in my presence.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.101.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.101.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Every morning I will put to silence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.101.8"><span class="content">all the wicked in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.101.8"><span class="content">I will cut off every evildoer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.101.8"><span class="content">from the city of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and say, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, &#8220;Live!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:6 </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat </span><span class="fqa">and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, &#8220;Live!&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and you became mine.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put sandals of fine leather on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="LUK.18.31+LUK.18.32+LUK.18.33+LUK.18.34+LUK.18.35+LUK.18.36+LUK.18.37+LUK.18.38+LUK.18.39+LUK.18.40+LUK.18.41+LUK.18.42+LUK.18.43">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.18.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.18.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.18.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.18.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.18.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.18.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They told him, &#8220;Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.18.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.18.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">He called out, &#8220;Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.18.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.18.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, &#8220;Son of David, have mercy on me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.18.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.18.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him, </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.18.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want me to do for you?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.18.41"><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, I want to see,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.18.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.18.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Jesus said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.18.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.1.1"><span class="content">To God&#8217;s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.1.2"><span class="content">Grace and peace be yours in abundance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise to God for a Living Hope</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who through faith are shielded by God&#8217;s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith&#8212;of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire&#8212;may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.</span></span></div>
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