\p 2 Samuel 21.0: \c 21
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\p 2 Samuel 21.1: \v 1 There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
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\p 2 Samuel 21.2: \v 2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
\p 2 Samuel 21.3: \v 3 and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”
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\p 2 Samuel 21.4: \v 4 The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.”
\p He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
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\p 2 Samuel 21.5: \v 5 They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
\p 2 Samuel 21.6: \v 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.”
\p The king said, “I will give them.”
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\p 2 Samuel 21.7: \v 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
\p 2 Samuel 21.8: \v 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
\p 2 Samuel 21.9: \v 9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
\p 2 Samuel 21.10: \v 10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
\p 2 Samuel 21.11: \v 11 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
\p 2 Samuel 21.12: \v 12 So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
\p 2 Samuel 21.13: \v 13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
\p 2 Samuel 21.14: \v 14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.
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\p 2 Samuel 21.15: \v 15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
\p 2 Samuel 21.16: \v 16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.
\p 2 Samuel 21.17: \v 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
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\p 2 Samuel 21.18: \v 18 After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
\p 2 Samuel 21.19: \v 19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
\p 2 Samuel 21.20: \v 20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand, and six toes on every foot, twenty four in count; and he also was born to the giant.
\p 2 Samuel 21.21: \v 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
\p 2 Samuel 21.22: \v 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
\p John 11.0: \c 11
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\p John 11.1: \v 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
\p John 11.2: \v 2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
\p John 11.3: \v 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
\p John 11.4: \v 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, \wj “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”\wj*
\p John 11.5: \v 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
\p John 11.6: \v 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
\p John 11.7: \v 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, \wj “Let’s go into Judea again.”\wj*
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\p John 11.8: \v 8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”
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\p John 11.9: \v 9 Jesus answered, \wj “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. \wj*
\p John 11.10: \v 10 \wj But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”\wj*
\p John 11.11: \v 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, \wj “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”\wj*
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\p John 11.12: \v 12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
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\p John 11.13: \v 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
\p John 11.14: \v 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, \wj “Lazarus is dead. \wj*
\p John 11.15: \v 15 \wj I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”\wj*
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\p John 11.16: \v 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,\f + \fr 11:16 \ft “Didymus” means “Twin”.\f* said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”
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\p John 11.17: \v 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
\p John 11.18: \v 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia\f + \fr 11:18 \ft 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles\f* away.
\p John 11.19: \v 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
\p John 11.20: \v 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
\p John 11.21: \v 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
\p John 11.22: \v 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
\p John 11.23: \v 23 Jesus said to her, \wj “Your brother will rise again.”\wj*
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\p John 11.24: \v 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
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\p John 11.25: \v 25 Jesus said to her, \wj “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. \wj*
\p John 11.26: \v 26 \wj Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”\wj*
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\p John 11.27: \v 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
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\p John 11.28: \v 28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”
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\p John 11.29: \v 29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.
\p John 11.30: \v 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
\p John 11.31: \v 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
\p John 11.32: \v 32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
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\p John 11.33: \v 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
\p John 11.34: \v 34 and said, \wj “Where have you laid him?”\wj*
\p They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
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\p John 11.35: \v 35 Jesus wept.
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\p John 11.36: \v 36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”
\p John 11.37: \v 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”
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\p John 11.38: \v 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
\p John 11.39: \v 39 Jesus said, \wj “Take away the stone.”\wj*
\p Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
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\p John 11.40: \v 40 Jesus said to her, \wj “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”\wj*
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\p John 11.41: \v 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.\f + \fr 11:41 \ft NU omits “from the place where the dead man was lying.”\f* Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, \wj “Father, I thank you that you listened to me. \wj*
\p John 11.42: \v 42 \wj I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” \wj*
\p John 11.43: \v 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, \wj “Lazarus, come out!”\wj*
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\p John 11.44: \v 44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Free him, and let him go.”\wj*
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\p John 11.45: \v 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.
\p John 11.46: \v 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
\p John 11.47: \v 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
\p John 11.48: \v 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
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\p John 11.49: \v 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
\p John 11.50: \v 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
\p John 11.51: \v 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
\p John 11.52: \v 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
\p John 11.53: \v 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
\p John 11.54: \v 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
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\p John 11.55: \v 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
\p John 11.56: \v 56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”
\p John 11.57: \v 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.0: \c 6
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.1: \v 1 Now \x + \xo 6:1 \xt Ezra 4:24; 5:1\x* in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggaeus and Zacharius the son of \f + \fr 6:1 \fqa Iddo. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Eddin\f* Addo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem; in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, \add prophesied they\add* to them.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.2: \v 2 Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, \add and\add* helping them.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.3: \v 3 \x + \xo 6:3 \xt Ezra 5:3\x* At the same time came to them \f + \fr 6:3 \fqa Tattenai.\f* Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, with \f + \fr 6:3 \fqa Shetharbozenai\f* Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.4: \v 4 By whose appointment do you° build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the builders that perform these things?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.5: \v 5 Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favor, because the Lord had visited the captivity;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.6: \v 6 and they were not hindered from building, until such time as communication was made to Darius concerning them, and his answer signified.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.7: \v 7 The copy of the letter which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, the rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, wrote and sent to Darius;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.8: \v 8 To king Darius, greeting: Let all things be known to our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the elders of the Jews that were of the captivity
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.9: \v 9 building a house to the Lord, great \add and\add* new, of hewn and costly stones, with timber laid in the walls.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.10: \v 10 And those works are done with great speed, and the work goes on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence it is accomplished.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.11: \v 11 Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build you° this house, and lay the foundations of these works?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.12: \v 12 Therefore, to the intent that we might give knowledge to you by writing who were the chief doers, we questioned them, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.13: \v 13 So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.14: \v 14 And as for this house, it was built many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.15: \v 15 But when our fathers sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, and provoked him to wrath, he gave them over into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.16: \v 16 and they pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away the people captives to Babylon.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.17: \v 17 But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.18: \v 18 And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set up in his own temple, those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple in Babylonia, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to \f + \fr 6:18 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Sabunassarus.\f* Sanabassarus the governor,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.19: \v 19 with commandment that he should carry away \f + \fr 6:19 \ft Another reading is, \fqa the same.\f* all these vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in its place.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.20: \v 20 Then Sanabassarus, being come here, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.21: \v 21 Now therefore, if it seem good, O king, let search be made among the royal archives of our lord the king that are in Babylon:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.22: \v 22 and if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem has been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and it seem good to our lord the king, let him signify to us thereof.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.23: \v 23 \x + \xo 6:23 \xt Ezra 6:1\x* Then commanded King Darius to seek among the archives that were laid up at Babylon: and so at Ekbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Another reading is, \fqa place.\f* scroll where these things were recorded.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.24: \v 24 In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded to build up the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.25: \v 25 whose height shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.26: \v 26 and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and carried away to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.27: \v 27 And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build that house of the Lord in its place.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.28: \v 28 And I also do command to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of Judea, till the house of the Lord be finished:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.29: \v 29 and that out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion be carefully given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, \add that is,\add* to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.30: \v 30 and also corn, salt, wine and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.31: \v 31 that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.32: \v 32 And that commandment be given that whoever shall transgress, yes, or neglect anything \f + \fr 6:32 \ft ft Another reading is, \fqa before spoken or written.\f* written here, out of his own \add house\add* shall a tree be taken, and he be hanged on it, and all his goods seized for the king.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.33: \v 33 The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that shall stretch out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.34: \v 34 I Darius the king have ordained that according to these things it be done with diligence.