\p Nahum 1.0: \c 1
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\p Nahum 1.1: \v 1 A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
\p Nahum 1.2: \v 2 Yahweh\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* is a jealous God\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
\p Nahum 1.3: \v 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
\p Nahum 1.4: \v 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
\p Nahum 1.5: \v 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
\p Nahum 1.6: \v 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
\p Nahum 1.7: \v 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
\p Nahum 1.8: \v 8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
\p Nahum 1.9: \v 9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
\p Nahum 1.10: \v 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
\p Nahum 1.11: \v 11 There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
\p Nahum 1.12: \v 12 Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
\p Nahum 1.13: \v 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
\p Nahum 1.14: \v 14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
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\p Nahum 1.15: \v 15 Behold,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.0: \c 4
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\p 1 Corinthians 4.1: \v 1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.2: \v 2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.3: \v 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.4: \v 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.5: \v 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
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\p 1 Corinthians 4.6: \v 6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.7: \v 7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
\p 1 Corinthians 4.8: \v 8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.9: \v 9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.10: \v 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.11: \v 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.12: \v 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.13: \v 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
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\p 1 Corinthians 4.14: \v 14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.15: \v 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.16: \v 16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.17: \v 17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.18: \v 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.19: \v 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.20: \v 20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
\p 1 Corinthians 4.21: \v 21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
\p James 5.0: \c 5
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\p James 5.1: \v 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
\p James 5.2: \v 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
\p James 5.3: \v 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
\p James 5.4: \v 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.\f + \fr 5:4 \ft Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)\f*
\p James 5.5: \v 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
\p James 5.6: \v 6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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\p James 5.7: \v 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
\p James 5.8: \v 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
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\p James 5.9: \v 9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
\p James 5.10: \v 10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
\p James 5.11: \v 11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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\p James 5.12: \v 12 But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.\f + \fr 5:12 \ft TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”\f*
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\p James 5.13: \v 13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
\p James 5.14: \v 14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
\p James 5.15: \v 15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
\p James 5.16: \v 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
\p James 5.17: \v 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
\p James 5.18: \v 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
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\p James 5.19: \v 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
\p James 5.20: \v 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.0: \c 9
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\p 1 Maccabees 9.1: \v 1 And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing \add of his army \add* with them:
\p 1 Maccabees 9.2: \v 2 and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.3: \v 3 And the first month of \f + \fr 9:3 \ft circa B.C. 161. \f* the hundred and fifty and second year they encamped against Jerusalem:
\p 1 Maccabees 9.4: \v 4 and they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horse.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.5: \v 5 And Judas was encamped at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:
\p 1 Maccabees 9.6: \v 6 and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.7: \v 7 And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.8: \v 8 And he said to those who were left, Let’s arise and go up against our adversaries, if perhaps we may be able to fight with them.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.9: \v 9 And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let’s rather save our lives now: let’s return again, \add we \add* and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.10: \v 10 And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.11: \v 11 And the army removed from the camp, and stood to encounter them, and the horse was parted into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.12: \v 12 But Bacchides was in the right wing; and the phalanx drew near on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.13: \v 13 And the men of Judas’ side, even they sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.14: \v 14 And Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, and there went with him all that were brave in heart,
\p 1 Maccabees 9.15: \v 15 and the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued after them to the mount Azotus.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.16: \v 16 And those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they turned and followed upon the footsteps of Judas and of those that were with him:
\p 1 Maccabees 9.17: \v 17 and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.18: \v 18 And Judas fell, and the rest fled.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.19: \v 19 And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.20: \v 20 And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said,
\p 1 Maccabees 9.21: \v 21 How is the mighty fallen, the savior of Israel!
\p 1 Maccabees 9.22: \v 22 And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceedingly many.
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\p 1 Maccabees 9.23: \v 23 And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who did iniquity rose up
\p 1 Maccabees 9.24: \v 24 (in those days there was an exceedingly great famine), and the country went over with them.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.25: \v 25 And Bacchides chose out the ungodly men, and made them lords of the country.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.26: \v 26 And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.27: \v 27 And there was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.28: \v 28 And all the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan,
\p 1 Maccabees 9.29: \v 29 Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and among them of our nation that hate us.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.30: \v 30 Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.31: \v 31 And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas.
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\p 1 Maccabees 9.32: \v 32 And Bacchides knew it, and he sought to kill him.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.33: \v 33 And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.34: \v 34 And Bacchides knew it on the Sabbath day, and came, he and all his army, over Jordan.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.35: \v 35 And \add Jonathan \add* sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.36: \v 36 And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.
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\p 1 Maccabees 9.37: \v 37 But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.38: \v 38 And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:
\p 1 Maccabees 9.39: \v 39 and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.40: \v 40 And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.41: \v 41 And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.42: \v 42 And they avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marsh of Jordan.
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\p 1 Maccabees 9.43: \v 43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of Jordan with a great army.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.44: \v 44 And Jonathan said to his company, Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not \add with us \add* today, as yesterday and the day before.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.45: \v 45 For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to escape.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.46: \v 46 Now therefore cry to heaven, that you° may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.47: \v 47 And the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.48: \v 48 And Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side: and they didn’t pass over Jordan against them.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.49: \v 49 And there fell of Bacchides’ company that day about a thousand men;
\p 1 Maccabees 9.50: \v 50 and he returned to Jerusalem. And they built strong cities in Judea, the stronghold that was in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.51: \v 51 And in them he set a garrison, to vex Israel.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.52: \v 52 And he fortified the city Bethsura, and Gazara, and the citadel, and put forces in them, and store of food.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.53: \v 53 And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in ward in the citadel at Jerusalem.
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\p 1 Maccabees 9.54: \v 54 And in \f + \fr 9:54 \ft circa B.C. 160. \f* the hundred and fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary; he pulled down also the works of the prophets;
\p 1 Maccabees 9.55: \v 55 and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.56: \v 56 And Alcimus died at that time with great torment.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.57: \v 57 And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years.
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\p 1 Maccabees 9.58: \v 58 And all the lawless men took counsel, saying, Behold, Jonathan and they of his part are dwelling at ease, and in security: now therefore we will bring Bacchides, and he shall lay hands on them all in one night.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.59: \v 59 And they went and consulted with him.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.60: \v 60 And he removed, and came with a great army, and sent letters privily to all his allies that were in Judea, that they should lay hands on Jonathan and those that were with him: and they could not, because their counsel was known to them.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.61: \v 61 And \add those who were of Jonathan’s part \add* laid hands on about fifty of the men of the country, that were authors of the wickedness, and he killed them.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.62: \v 62 And Jonathan, and Simon, and those who were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and he built up that which had been pulled down thereof, and they made it strong.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.63: \v 63 And Bacchides knew it, and he gathered together all his multitude, and sent word to those who were of Judea.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.64: \v 64 And he went and encamped against Bethbasi, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.65: \v 65 And Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth into the country, and he went with a few men.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.66: \v 66 And he struck Odomera and his kindred, and the children of Phasiron in their tent.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.67: \v 67 And they began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. And Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set on fire the engines of war,
\p 1 Maccabees 9.68: \v 68 and fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore; for his counsel was in vain, and his inroad.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.69: \v 69 And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.70: \v 70 And Jonathan had knowledge thereof, and sent ambassadors to him, to the end that they should make peace with him, and that he should restore to them the captives.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.71: \v 71 And he accepted the thing, and did according to his words, and sware to him that he would not seek his hurt all the days of his life.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.72: \v 72 And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders.
\p 1 Maccabees 9.73: \v 73 And the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan lived at Michmash; and Jonathan began to judge the people; and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel.