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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Amaziah King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother&#8217;s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but not wholeheartedly. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded: &#8220;Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:4 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 24:16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons; also in verse 9</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But a man of God came to him and said, &#8220;Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is not with Israel&#8212;not with any of the people of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Amaziah asked the man of God, &#8220;But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.25.9"><span class="content">The man of God replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> can give you much more than that.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Amaziah then marshaled his strength and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he killed ten thousand men of Seir. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had sent back and had not allowed to take part in the war raided towns belonging to Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods, bowed down to them and burned sacrifices to them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, &#8220;Why do you consult this people&#8217;s gods, which could not save their own people from your hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While he was still speaking, the king said to him, &#8220;Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.25.16"><span class="content">So the prophet stopped but said, &#8220;I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, he sent this challenge to Jehoash</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Joash, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoash</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 18, 21, 23 and 25</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel: &#8220;Come, let us face each other in battle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: &#8220;A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, &#8216;Give your daughter to my son in marriage.&#8217; Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might deliver them into the hands of Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Jehoahaz, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Ahaziah</span></span></span><span class="content"> at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate&#8212;a section about four hundred cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 600 feet or about 180 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> long. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom, together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.25.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Amaziah&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He was brought back by horse and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:28 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 14:20) </span><span class="fqa">David</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Uzziah King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:1 </span><span class="ft">Also called </span><span class="fqa">Azariah</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother&#8217;s name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father Amaziah had done. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:5 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; other Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">vision</span></span></span><span class="content"> of God. As long as he sought the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God gave him success.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal and against the Meunites. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, because he had become very powerful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Uzziah had a well-trained army, ready to go out by divisions according to their numbers as mustered by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officials. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The total number of family leaders over the fighting men was 2,600. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Under their command was an army of 307,500 men trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Uzziah provided shields, spears, helmets, coats of armor, bows and slingstones for the entire army. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God, and entered the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to burn incense on the altar of incense. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Azariah the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> followed him in. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They confronted King Uzziah and said, &#8220;It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple, leprosy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 20, 21 and 23.</span></span></span><span class="content"> broke out on his forehead. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him, they saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had afflicted him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in a house where he was relieved of responsibilities</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;leprous, and banned from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.26.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The other events of Uzziah&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Uzziah rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in a cemetery that belonged to the kings, for people said, &#8220;He had leprosy.&#8221; And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Leaders and Prophets Rebuked</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, you leaders of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">you rulers of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">Should you not embrace justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you who hate good and love evil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="content">who tear the skin from my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="content">and the flesh from their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">who eat my people&#8217;s flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">strip off their skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">and break their bones in pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">who chop them up like meat for the pan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">like flesh for the pot?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then they will cry out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">but he will not answer them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">At that time he will hide his face from them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">because of the evil they have done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">&#8220;As for the prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">who lead my people astray,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">they proclaim &#8216;peace&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">if they have something to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">but prepare to wage war against anyone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">who refuses to feed them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore night will come over you, without visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">and darkness, without divination.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">The sun will set for the prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">and the day will go dark for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The seers will be ashamed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">and the diviners disgraced.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">They will all cover their faces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">because there is no answer from God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But as for me, I am filled with power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">with the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">and with justice and might,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">to declare to Jacob his transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">to Israel his sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">you rulers of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">who despise justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">and distort all that is right;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">who build Zion with bloodshed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.3.10"><span class="content">and Jerusalem with wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Her leaders judge for a bribe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">her priests teach for a price,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">and her prophets tell fortunes for money.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">Yet they look for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s support and say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Is not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> among us?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">No disaster will come upon us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore because of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="content">Zion will be plowed like a field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="content">Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="content">the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the last days</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple will be established</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">as the highest of the mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">it will be exalted above the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">and peoples will stream to it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Many nations will come and say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Come, let us go up to the mountain 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="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">to the temple of the God of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">He will teach us his ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">so that we may walk in his paths.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">The law will go out from Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> from Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He will judge between many peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">They will beat their swords into plowshares</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">and their spears into pruning hooks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">Nation will not take up sword against nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">nor will they train for war anymore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Everyone will sit under their own vine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">and under their own fig tree,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">and no one will make them afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All the nations may walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">in the name of their gods,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">but we will walk in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">our God for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Plan</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">&#8220;I will gather the lame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">I will assemble the exiles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">and those I have brought to grief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will make the lame my remnant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">those driven away a strong nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will rule over them in Mount Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">from that day and forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As for you, watchtower of the flock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">stronghold</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">hill</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">the former dominion will be restored to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Why do you now cry aloud&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">have you no king</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">King</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">Has your ruler</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Ruler</span></span></span><span class="content"> perished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">like a woman in labor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">for now you must leave the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">to camp in the open field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">You will go to Babylon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">there you will be rescued.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">There the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will redeem you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">out of the hand of your enemies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now many nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">are gathered against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">They say, &#8220;Let her be defiled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">let our eyes gloat over Zion!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But they do not know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">the thoughts of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">they do not understand his plan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">for I will give you horns of iron;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">I will give you hooves of bronze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">and you will break to pieces many nations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="LUK.24.36+LUK.24.37+LUK.24.38+LUK.24.39+LUK.24.40+LUK.24.41+LUK.24.42+LUK.24.43+LUK.24.44+LUK.24.45+LUK.24.46+LUK.24.47+LUK.24.48+LUK.24.49+LUK.24.50+LUK.24.51+LUK.24.52+LUK.24.53">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.24.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace be with you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.24.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.24.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.24.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.24.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.24.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.24.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.24.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you have anything here to eat?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.24.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They gave him a piece of broiled fish, </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.24.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">and he took it and ate it in their presence.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.24.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.24.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.24.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.24.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.24.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.24.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.24.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are witnesses of these things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.24.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ascension of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.24.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.24.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.24.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LUK.24.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.24.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">even though God had said to him, &#8220;It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:18 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 21:12</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HEB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HEB.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HEB.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph&#8217;s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HEB.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HEB.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HEB.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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