Numbers 13.0:

Numbers 13.1: 13Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 13.2: 2 “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”

Numbers 13.3: 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.

Numbers 13.4: 4 These were their names:

Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

Numbers 13.5: 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

Numbers 13.6: 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

Numbers 13.7: 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

Numbers 13.8: 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

Numbers 13.9: 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

Numbers 13.10: 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.

Numbers 13.11: 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Numbers 13.12: 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

Numbers 13.13: 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

Numbers 13.14: 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

Numbers 13.15: 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

Numbers 13.16: 16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

Numbers 13.17: 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.

Numbers 13.18: 18 See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

Numbers 13.19: 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;

Numbers 13.20: 20 and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

Numbers 13.21: 21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

Numbers 13.22: 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Numbers 13.23: 23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

Numbers 13.24: 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.

Numbers 13.25: 25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Numbers 13.26: 26 They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13.27: 27 They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Numbers 13.28: 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

Numbers 13.29: 29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”

Numbers 13.30: 30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

Numbers 13.31: 31 But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

Numbers 13.32: 32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

Numbers 13.33: 33 There we saw the Nephilim,1 the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim.2 We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

2 Chronicles 13.0:

2 Chronicles 13.1: 13In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.

2 Chronicles 13.2: 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 13.3: 3 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 13.4: 4 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

2 Chronicles 13.5: 5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

2 Chronicles 13.6: 6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

2 Chronicles 13.7: 7 Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.

2 Chronicles 13.8: 8 “Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you.

2 Chronicles 13.9: 9 Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods.

2 Chronicles 13.10: 10 “But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests serving Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work;

2 Chronicles 13.11: 11 and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.

2 Chronicles 13.12: 12 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

2 Chronicles 13.13: 13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

2 Chronicles 13.14: 14 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

2 Chronicles 13.15: 15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2 Chronicles 13.16: 16 The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.

2 Chronicles 13.17: 17 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.

2 Chronicles 13.18: 18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 13.19: 19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.

2 Chronicles 13.20: 20 Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.

2 Chronicles 13.21: 21 But Abijah grew mighty, and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 13.22: 22 The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

2 Chronicles 34.0:

2 Chronicles 34.1: 34Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.2: 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

2 Chronicles 34.3: 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

2 Chronicles 34.4: 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Chronicles 34.5: 5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.6: 6 He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

2 Chronicles 34.7: 7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.8: 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair Yahweh his God’s house.

2 Chronicles 34.9: 9 They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.10: 10 They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and the workmen who labored in Yahweh’s house gave it to mend and repair the house.

2 Chronicles 34.11: 11 They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders, to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

2 Chronicles 34.12: 12 The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.

2 Chronicles 34.13: 13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.

2 Chronicles 34.14: 14 When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses.

2 Chronicles 34.15: 15 Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

2 Chronicles 34.16: 16 Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, “All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.

2 Chronicles 34.17: 17 They have emptied out the money that was found in Yahweh’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.”

2 Chronicles 34.18: 18 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.” Shaphan read from it to the king.

2 Chronicles 34.19: 19 When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34.20: 20 The king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

2 Chronicles 34.21: 21 “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”

2 Chronicles 34.22: 22 So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.

2 Chronicles 34.23: 23 She said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,

2 Chronicles 34.24: 24 “Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 34.25: 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’”’

2 Chronicles 34.26: 26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, you shall tell him this, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says: “About the words which you have heard,

2 Chronicles 34.27: 27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 34.28: 28 “Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’”

They brought back word to the king.

2 Chronicles 34.29: 29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34.30: 30 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 34.31: 31 The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

2 Chronicles 34.32: 32 He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34.33: 33 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Song of Solomon 7.0:

Song of Solomon 7.1: 7How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!

Your rounded thighs are like jewels,

the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

Song of Solomon 7.2: 2 Your body is like a round goblet,

no mixed wine is wanting.

Your waist is like a heap of wheat,

set about with lilies.

Song of Solomon 7.3: 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,

that are twins of a roe.

Song of Solomon 7.4: 4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.

Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

Song of Solomon 7.5: 5 Your head on you is like Carmel.

The hair of your head like purple.

The king is held captive in its tresses.

Song of Solomon 7.6: 6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are,

love, for delights!

Song of Solomon 7.7: 7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree,

your breasts like its fruit.

Song of Solomon 7.8: 8 I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.

I will take hold of its fruit.”

Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,

the smell of your breath like apples.

Song of Solomon 7.9: 9 Your mouth is like the best wine,

that goes down smoothly for my beloved,

gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

Beloved

Song of Solomon 7.10: 10 I am my beloved’s.

His desire is toward me.

Song of Solomon 7.11: 11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.

Let’s lodge in the villages.

Song of Solomon 7.12: 12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards.

Let’s see whether the vine has budded,

its blossom is open,

and the pomegranates are in flower.

There I will give you my love.

Song of Solomon 7.13: 13 The mandrakes produce fragrance.

At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,

which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Isaiah 22.0:

Isaiah 22.1: 22The burden of the valley of vision.

What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

Isaiah 22.2: 2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

Isaiah 22.3: 3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

Isaiah 22.4: 4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 22.5: 5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Isaiah 22.6: 6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

Isaiah 22.7: 7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

Isaiah 22.8: 8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

Isaiah 22.9: 9 You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Isaiah 22.10: 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

Isaiah 22.11: 11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

Isaiah 22.12: 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Isaiah 22.13: 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Isaiah 22.14: 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 22.15: 15 The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

Isaiah 22.16: 16 ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

Isaiah 22.17: 17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

Isaiah 22.18: 18 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

Isaiah 22.19: 19 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

Isaiah 22.20: 20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

Isaiah 22.21: 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

Isaiah 22.22: 22 I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

Isaiah 22.23: 23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Isaiah 22.24: 24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

Isaiah 22.25: 25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

Acts 16.0:

Acts 16.1: 16He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

Acts 16.2: 2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

Acts 16.3: 3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Acts 16.4: 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

Acts 16.5: 5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Acts 16.6: 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Acts 16.7: 7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.

Acts 16.8: 8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

Acts 16.9: 9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

Acts 16.10: 10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.

Acts 16.11: 11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;

Acts 16.12: 12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

Acts 16.13: 13 On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

Acts 16.14: 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Acts 16.15: 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

Acts 16.16: 16 As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Acts 16.17: 17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

Acts 16.18: 18 She was doing this for many days.

But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

Acts 16.19: 19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

Acts 16.20: 20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city

Acts 16.21: 21 and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

Acts 16.22: 22 The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

Acts 16.23: 23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

Acts 16.24: 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

Acts 16.25: 25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Acts 16.26: 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.

Acts 16.27: 27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

Acts 16.28: 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

Acts 16.29: 29 He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

Acts 16.30: 30 brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 16.31: 31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 16.32: 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

Acts 16.33: 33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

Acts 16.34: 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

Acts 16.35: 35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”

Acts 16.36: 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”

Acts 16.37: 37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

Acts 16.38: 38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

Acts 16.39: 39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

Acts 16.40: 40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

1 Thessalonians 3.0:

1 Thessalonians 3.1: 3Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

1 Thessalonians 3.2: 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

1 Thessalonians 3.3: 3 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

1 Thessalonians 3.4: 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

1 Thessalonians 3.5: 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

1 Thessalonians 3.6: 6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

1 Thessalonians 3.7: 7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

1 Thessalonians 3.8: 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3.9: 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

1 Thessalonians 3.10: 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

1 Thessalonians 3.11: 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

1 Thessalonians 3.12: 12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

1 Thessalonians 3.13: 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Hebrews 1.0:

Hebrews 1.1: 1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Hebrews 1.2: 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Hebrews 1.3: 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Hebrews 1.4: 4 having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.

Hebrews 1.5: 5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time,

“You are my Son.

Today I have become your father?”a

and again,

“I will be to him a Father,

and he will be to me a Son?”b

Hebrews 1.6: 6 When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”c

Hebrews 1.7: 7 Of the angels he says,

“He makes his angels winds,

and his servants a flame of fire.”d

Hebrews 1.8: 8 But of the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.

The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Hebrews 1.9: 9 You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity;

therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”e

Hebrews 1.10: 10 And,

“You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth.

The heavens are the works of your hands.

Hebrews 1.11: 11 They will perish, but you continue.

They all will grow old like a garment does.

Hebrews 1.12: 12 You will roll them up like a mantle,

and they will be changed;

but you are the same.

Your years won’t fail.”f

Hebrews 1.13: 13 But which of the angels has he told at any time,

“Sit at my right hand,

until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?”g

Hebrews 1.14: 14 Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Sirach 43.0:

Sirach 43.1: 43The pride of the height is the firmament 1 in its clearness,

The appearance of heaven, in the spectacle of its glory.

Sirach 43.2: 2 The sun when he appears, bringing tidings as he goes forth,

Is a marvelous instrument, the work of the Most High:

Sirach 43.3: 3 At his noon he dries up the country,

And who shall stand against his burning heat?

Sirach 43.4: 4 A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat,

But the sun three times more, burning up the mountains:

Breathing out fiery vapours,

And sending forth bright beams, he dims the eyes.

Sirach 43.5: 5 Great is the Lord that made him;

And at his word he hastens his course.

Sirach 43.6: 6 The moon also is in all things for her season,

For a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.

Sirach 43.7: 7 From the moon is the sign of the feast day;

A light that wanes when she is come to the full.

Sirach 43.8: 8 The month is called after her name,

Increasing wonderfully in her changing;

An instrument of the army on high,

Shining forth in the firmament of heaven;

Sirach 43.9: 9 The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars,

An ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.

Sirach 43.10: 10 At the word of the Holy One they will stand in 2 due order,

And they will not faint in their watches.

Sirach 43.11: 11 Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it;

Exceeding beautiful in the brightness thereof.

Sirach 43.12: 12 It encircles the heaven round about with a circle of glory;

The hands of the Most High have stretched it.

Sirach 43.13: 13 By his commandment he makes the snow to fall apace,

And sends swiftly the lightnings of his judgement.

Sirach 43.14: 14 By reason thereof the treasure-houses are opened;

And clouds fly forth as fowls.

Sirach 43.15: 15 By his mighty power he makes strong the clouds,

And the hailstones are broken small:

Sirach 43.16: 16 And at his appearing the mountains will be shaken,

And at his will the south wind will blow.

Sirach 43.17: 17 The voice of his thunder makes the earth to travail;

So does the northern storm and the whirlwind:

As birds flying down he sprinkles the snow;

And as the lighting of the locust is the falling down thereof:

Sirach 43.18: 18 The eye will marvel at the beauty of its whiteness,

And the heart will be astonished at the raining of it.

Sirach 43.19: 19 The hoar frost also he pours on the earth as salt;

And when it is congealed, it is as points of thorns.

Sirach 43.20: 20 The cold north wind shall blow,

And the ice shall be congealed on the water:

It shall lodge upon every gathering together of water,

And the water shall put on as it were a breastplate.

Sirach 43.21: 21 It shall devour the mountains, and burn up the wilderness,

And consume the green herb as fire.

Sirach 43.22: 22 A mist coming speedily is the healing of all things;

A dew coming after heat shall bring cheerfulness.

Sirach 43.23: 23 By his counsel he has stilled the deep,

And 3 planted islands therein.

Sirach 43.24: 24 They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof;

And when we hear it with our ears, we marvel.

Sirach 43.25: 25 Therein be also those strange and wondrous works,

Variety of all that has life, the 4 race of sea-monsters.

Sirach 43.26: 26 By reason of him his end has success,

And by his word all things consist.

Sirach 43.27: 27 We may say many things, yet shall we not attain;

And the sum of our words is, He is all.

Sirach 43.28: 28 How shall we have strength to glorify him?

For he is himself the great one above all his works.

Sirach 43.29: 29 The Lord is terrible and exceedingly great;

And marvelous is his power.

Sirach 43.30: 30 When you° glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as you° can;

For even yet he will exceed:

And when you° exalt him, put forth your full strength:

Be not weary; for you° will never attain.

Sirach 43.31: 31 Who has seen him, that he may declare him?

And who shall magnify him as he is?

Sirach 43.32: 32 Many things are hidden greater than these;

For we have seen but a few of his works.

Sirach 43.33: 33 For the Lord made all things;

And to the godly gave he wisdom.

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