\p Genesis 46.0: \c 46
\p
\p Genesis 46.1: \v 1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
\p Genesis 46.2: \v 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\p Genesis 46.3: \v 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
\p Genesis 46.4: \v 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
\p
\p Genesis 46.5: \v 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
\p Genesis 46.6: \v 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,
\p Genesis 46.7: \v 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.
\p
\p Genesis 46.8: \v 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
\p Genesis 46.9: \v 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
\p Genesis 46.10: \v 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
\p Genesis 46.11: \v 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\p Genesis 46.12: \v 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
\p Genesis 46.13: \v 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
\p Genesis 46.14: \v 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
\p Genesis 46.15: \v 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
\p Genesis 46.16: \v 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
\p Genesis 46.17: \v 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
\p Genesis 46.18: \v 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
\p Genesis 46.19: \v 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
\p Genesis 46.20: \v 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
\p Genesis 46.21: \v 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
\p Genesis 46.22: \v 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
\p Genesis 46.23: \v 23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
\p Genesis 46.24: \v 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
\p Genesis 46.25: \v 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
\p Genesis 46.26: \v 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
\p Genesis 46.27: \v 27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
\p
\p Genesis 46.28: \v 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
\p Genesis 46.29: \v 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
\p Genesis 46.30: \v 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
\p
\p Genesis 46.31: \v 31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
\p Genesis 46.32: \v 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
\p Genesis 46.33: \v 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
\p Genesis 46.34: \v 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
\p Exodus 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Exodus 14.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 14.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
\p Exodus 14.3: \v 3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
\p Exodus 14.4: \v 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
\p
\p Exodus 14.5: \v 5 The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
\p Exodus 14.6: \v 6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;
\p Exodus 14.7: \v 7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
\p Exodus 14.8: \v 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.\f + \fr 14:8 \ft or, defiantly.\f*
\p Exodus 14.9: \v 9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
\p
\p Exodus 14.10: \v 10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 14.11: \v 11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
\p Exodus 14.12: \v 12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
\p
\p Exodus 14.13: \v 13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
\p Exodus 14.14: \v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
\p
\p Exodus 14.15: \v 15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
\p Exodus 14.16: \v 16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.
\p Exodus 14.17: \v 17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
\p Exodus 14.18: \v 18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”
\p Exodus 14.19: \v 19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
\p Exodus 14.20: \v 20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
\p
\p Exodus 14.21: \v 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
\p Exodus 14.22: \v 22 The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\p Exodus 14.23: \v 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
\p Exodus 14.24: \v 24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
\p Exodus 14.25: \v 25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
\p
\p Exodus 14.26: \v 26 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”
\p Exodus 14.27: \v 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
\p Exodus 14.28: \v 28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
\p Exodus 14.29: \v 29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\p Exodus 14.30: \v 30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
\p Exodus 14.31: \v 31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
\p Exodus 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p Exodus 26.1: \v 1 “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 26.2: \v 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,\f + \fr 26:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
\p Exodus 26.3: \v 3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
\p Exodus 26.4: \v 4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 26.5: \v 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another.
\p Exodus 26.6: \v 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.
\p
\p Exodus 26.7: \v 7 “You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
\p Exodus 26.8: \v 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
\p Exodus 26.9: \v 9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
\p Exodus 26.10: \v 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 26.11: \v 11 You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
\p Exodus 26.12: \v 12 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 26.13: \v 13 The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
\p Exodus 26.14: \v 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
\p
\p Exodus 26.15: \v 15 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
\p Exodus 26.16: \v 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
\p Exodus 26.17: \v 17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 26.18: \v 18 You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.
\p Exodus 26.19: \v 19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
\p Exodus 26.20: \v 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
\p Exodus 26.21: \v 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p Exodus 26.22: \v 22 For the far side of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
\p Exodus 26.23: \v 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side.
\p Exodus 26.24: \v 24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
\p Exodus 26.25: \v 25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p
\p Exodus 26.26: \v 26 “You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
\p Exodus 26.27: \v 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far side westward.
\p Exodus 26.28: \v 28 The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
\p Exodus 26.29: \v 29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.
\p Exodus 26.30: \v 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
\p
\p Exodus 26.31: \v 31 “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 26.32: \v 32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
\p Exodus 26.33: \v 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
\p Exodus 26.34: \v 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
\p Exodus 26.35: \v 35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.
\p
\p Exodus 26.36: \v 36 “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
\p Exodus 26.37: \v 37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
\p Judges 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Judges 2.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
\p Judges 2.2: \v 2 You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
\p Judges 2.3: \v 3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
\p
\p Judges 2.4: \v 4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
\p Judges 2.5: \v 5 They called the name of that place Bochim,\f + \fr 2:5 \ft “Bochim” means “weepers”.\f* and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
\p Judges 2.6: \v 6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
\p Judges 2.7: \v 7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
\p Judges 2.8: \v 8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
\p Judges 2.9: \v 9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
\p Judges 2.10: \v 10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
\p Judges 2.11: \v 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
\p Judges 2.12: \v 12 They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
\p Judges 2.13: \v 13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
\p Judges 2.14: \v 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
\p Judges 2.15: \v 15 Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
\p Judges 2.16: \v 16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
\p Judges 2.17: \v 17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
\p Judges 2.18: \v 18 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
\p Judges 2.19: \v 19 But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.
\p Judges 2.20: \v 20 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
\p Judges 2.21: \v 21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
\p Judges 2.22: \v 22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
\p Judges 2.23: \v 23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
\p Judges 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Judges 5.1: \v 1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
\q1
\p Judges 5.2: \v 2 “Because the leaders took the lead in Israel,
\q2 because the people offered themselves willingly,
\q1 be blessed, Yahweh!
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.3: \v 3 “Hear, you kings!
\q2 Give ear, you princes!
\q1 I, even I, will sing to Yahweh.
\q2 I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.4: \v 4 “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir,
\q2 when you marched out of the field of Edom,
\q1 the earth trembled, the sky also dropped.
\q2 Yes, the clouds dropped water.
\q1
\p Judges 5.5: \v 5 The mountains quaked Yahweh’s presence,
\q2 even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.6: \v 6 “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
\q2 in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied.
\q2 The travelers walked through byways.
\q1
\p Judges 5.7: \v 7 The rulers ceased in Israel.
\q2 They ceased until I, Deborah, arose;
\q2 Until I arose a mother in Israel.
\q1
\p Judges 5.8: \v 8 They chose new gods.
\q2 Then war was in the gates.
\q2 Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
\q1
\p Judges 5.9: \v 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
\q2 who offered themselves willingly among the people.
\q2 Bless Yahweh!
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.10: \v 10 “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys,
\q2 you who sit on rich carpets,
\q2 and you who walk by the way.
\q1
\p Judges 5.11: \v 11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water,
\q2 there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts,
\q2 the righteous acts of his rule in Israel.
\b
\q1 “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
\q2
\p Judges 5.12: \v 12 ‘Awake, awake, Deborah!
\q2 Awake, awake, utter a song!
\q2 Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.13: \v 13 “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down.
\q2 Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
\q1
\p Judges 5.14: \v 14 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim,
\q2 after you, Benjamin, among your peoples.
\q1 Governors come down out of Machir.
\q2 Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.
\q1
\p Judges 5.15: \v 15 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah.
\q2 As was Issachar, so was Barak.
\q2 They rushed into the valley at his feet.
\q1 By the watercourses of Reuben,
\q2 there were great resolves of heart.
\q1
\p Judges 5.16: \v 16 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds?
\q2 To hear the whistling for the flocks?
\q1 At the watercourses of Reuben,
\q2 there were great searchings of heart.
\q1
\p Judges 5.17: \v 17 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan.
\q2 Why did Dan remain in ships?
\q2 Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
\q2 and lived by his creeks.
\q1
\p Judges 5.18: \v 18 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death;
\q2 Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.19: \v 19 “The kings came and fought,
\q2 then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.
\q2 They took no plunder of silver.
\q1
\p Judges 5.20: \v 20 From the sky the stars fought.
\q2 From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
\q1
\p Judges 5.21: \v 21 The river Kishon swept them away,
\q2 that ancient river, the river Kishon.
\q2 My soul, march on with strength.
\q1
\p Judges 5.22: \v 22 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing,
\q2 the prancing of their strong ones.
\q1
\p Judges 5.23: \v 23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel.
\q2 ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants,
\q2 because they didn’t come to help Yahweh,
\q2 to help Yahweh against the mighty.’
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.24: \v 24 “Jael shall be blessed above women,
\q2 the wife of Heber the Kenite;
\q2 blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
\q1
\p Judges 5.25: \v 25 He asked for water.
\q2 She gave him milk.
\q2 She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
\q1
\p Judges 5.26: \v 26 She put her hand to the tent peg,
\q2 and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer.
\q1 With the hammer she struck Sisera.
\q2 She struck through his head.
\q2 Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
\q1
\p Judges 5.27: \v 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.
\q2 At her feet he bowed, he fell.
\q2 Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.28: \v 28 “Through the window she looked out, and cried:
\q2 Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice.
\q1 ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
\q2 Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’
\q1
\p Judges 5.29: \v 29 Her wise ladies answered her,
\q2 Yes, she returned answer to herself,
\q1
\p Judges 5.30: \v 30 ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder?
\q2 A lady, two ladies to every man;
\q1 to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments,
\q2 a plunder of dyed garments embroidered,
\q2 of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.31: \v 31 “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh,
\q2 but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.”
\b
\p Then the land had rest forty years.
\p Judges 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Judges 7.1: \v 1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
\p Judges 7.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
\p Judges 7.3: \v 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
\p
\p Judges 7.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
\p Judges 7.5: \v 5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
\p Judges 7.6: \v 6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
\p Judges 7.7: \v 7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
\p
\p Judges 7.8: \v 8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
\p Judges 7.9: \v 9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
\p Judges 7.10: \v 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
\p Judges 7.11: \v 11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
\p
\p Judges 7.12: \v 12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
\p
\p Judges 7.13: \v 13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
\p
\p Judges 7.14: \v 14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
\p
\p Judges 7.15: \v 15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
\p
\p Judges 7.16: \v 16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
\p
\p Judges 7.17: \v 17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
\p Judges 7.18: \v 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”
\p
\p Judges 7.19: \v 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
\p Judges 7.20: \v 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
\p Judges 7.21: \v 21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
\p Judges 7.22: \v 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
\p Judges 7.23: \v 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
\p Judges 7.24: \v 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
\p Judges 7.25: \v 25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
\p 2 Kings 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.1: \v 1 Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
\p 2 Kings 1.2: \v 2 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.3: \v 3 But Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God\f + \fr 1:3 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?
\p 2 Kings 1.4: \v 4 Now therefore Yahweh says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.5: \v 5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.6: \v 6 They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “Yahweh says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.7: \v 7 He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.8: \v 8 They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.”
\p He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.9: \v 9 Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.10: \v 10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.11: \v 11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.12: \v 12 Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.13: \v 13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.
\p 2 Kings 1.14: \v 14 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.15: \v 15 Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.”
\p Then he arose, and went down with him to the king.
\p 2 Kings 1.16: \v 16 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”
\p
\p 2 Kings 1.17: \v 17 So he died according to Yahweh’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.
\p 2 Kings 1.18: \v 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\p Ezekiel 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Ezekiel 13.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\p Ezekiel 13.2: \v 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:
\p Ezekiel 13.3: \v 3 The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
\p Ezekiel 13.4: \v 4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
\p Ezekiel 13.5: \v 5 You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.
\p Ezekiel 13.6: \v 6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
\p Ezekiel 13.7: \v 7 Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”
\p
\p Ezekiel 13.8: \v 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p Ezekiel 13.9: \v 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
\p
\p Ezekiel 13.10: \v 10 “‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.
\p Ezekiel 13.11: \v 11 Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.
\p Ezekiel 13.12: \v 12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?”
\p
\p Ezekiel 13.13: \v 13 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
\p Ezekiel 13.14: \v 14 So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\p Ezekiel 13.15: \v 15 Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;
\p Ezekiel 13.16: \v 16 to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
\p
\p Ezekiel 13.17: \v 17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
\p Ezekiel 13.18: \v 18 and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
\p Ezekiel 13.19: \v 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
\p
\p Ezekiel 13.20: \v 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.
\p Ezekiel 13.21: \v 21 I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\p Ezekiel 13.22: \v 22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
\p Ezekiel 13.23: \v 23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
\p Daniel 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Daniel 9.1: \v 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
\p Daniel 9.2: \v 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word\f + \fr 9:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. \f* came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
\p Daniel 9.3: \v 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
\p
\p Daniel 9.4: \v 4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said,
\pi1 “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
\p Daniel 9.5: \v 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
\p Daniel 9.6: \v 6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
\pi1
\p Daniel 9.7: \v 7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
\p Daniel 9.8: \v 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
\p Daniel 9.9: \v 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.
\p Daniel 9.10: \v 10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
\p Daniel 9.11: \v 11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice.
\pi1 “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
\p Daniel 9.12: \v 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
\p Daniel 9.13: \v 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
\p Daniel 9.14: \v 14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
\pi1
\p Daniel 9.15: \v 15 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.
\p Daniel 9.16: \v 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
\pi1
\p Daniel 9.17: \v 17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
\p Daniel 9.18: \v 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
\p Daniel 9.19: \v 19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
\b
\p
\p Daniel 9.20: \v 20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
\p Daniel 9.21: \v 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
\p Daniel 9.22: \v 22 He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
\p Daniel 9.23: \v 23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
\p
\p Daniel 9.24: \v 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
\p
\p Daniel 9.25: \v 25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,\f + \fr 9:25 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
\p Daniel 9.26: \v 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One\f + \fr 9:26 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
\p Daniel 9.27: \v 27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
\p Hosea 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Hosea 1.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
\p Hosea 1.2: \v 2 When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
\p
\p Hosea 1.3: \v 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
\p
\p Hosea 1.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
\p Hosea 1.5: \v 5 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
\p
\p Hosea 1.6: \v 6 She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
\p Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah\f + \fr 1:6 \ft Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.\f*; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
\p Hosea 1.7: \v 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God,\f + \fr 1:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
\p
\p Hosea 1.8: \v 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
\p
\p Hosea 1.9: \v 9 He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi\f + \fr 1:9 \ft Lo-Ammi means “not my people”.\f*; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
\p Hosea 1.10: \v 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
\p Hosea 1.11: \v 11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
\p Hosea 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Hosea 6.1: \v 1 “Come! Let’s return to Yahweh;
\q2 for he has torn us to pieces,
\q2 and he will heal us;
\q1 he has injured us,
\q2 and he will bind up our wounds.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.2: \v 2 After two days he will revive us.
\q2 On the third day he will raise us up,
\q2 and we will live before him.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.3: \v 3 Let’s acknowledge Yahweh.
\q2 Let’s press on to know Yahweh.
\q1 As surely as the sun rises,
\q2 Yahweh will appear.
\q1 He will come to us like the rain,
\q2 like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 6.4: \v 4 “Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
\q2 Judah, what shall I do to you?
\q2 For your love is like a morning cloud,
\q2 and like the dew that disappears early.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.5: \v 5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets;
\q2 I killed them with the words of my mouth.
\q2 Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.6: \v 6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;
\q2 and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.7: \v 7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant.
\q2 They were unfaithful to me, there.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.8: \v 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;
\q2 it is stained with blood.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.9: \v 9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,
\q2 so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem,
\q2 committing shameful crimes.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.10: \v 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing.
\q2 There is prostitution in Ephraim.
\q2 Israel is defiled.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 6.11: \v 11 “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
\q2 when I restore the fortunes of my people.
\p Micah 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Micah 3.1: \v 1 I said,
\q1 “Please listen, you heads of Jacob,
\q2 and rulers of the house of Israel:
\q2 Isn’t it for you to know justice?
\q1
\p Micah 3.2: \v 2 You who hate the good,
\q2 and love the evil;
\q2 who tear off their skin,
\q2 and their flesh from off their bones;
\q2
\p Micah 3.3: \v 3 who also eat the flesh of my people,
\q2 and peel their skin from off them,
\q2 and break their bones,
\q2 and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
\q2 and as meat within the cauldron.
\q1
\p Micah 3.4: \v 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh,
\q2 but he will not answer them.
\q1 Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,
\q2 because they made their deeds evil.”
\p
\p Micah 3.5: \v 5 Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
\q1
\p Micah 3.6: \v 6 “Therefore night is over you, with no vision,
\q2 and it is dark to you, that you may not divine;
\q2 and the sun will go down on the prophets,
\q2 and the day will be black over them.
\q1
\p Micah 3.7: \v 7 The seers shall be disappointed,
\q2 and the diviners confounded.
\q1 Yes, they shall all cover their lips;
\q2 for there is no answer from God.”\f + \fr 3:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q1
\p Micah 3.8: \v 8 But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit,
\q2 and of judgment, and of might,
\q2 to declare to Jacob his disobedience,
\q2 and to Israel his sin.
\q1
\p Micah 3.9: \v 9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,
\q2 and rulers of the house of Israel,
\q2 who abhor justice,
\q2 and pervert all equity.
\q1
\p Micah 3.10: \v 10 They build up Zion with blood,
\q2 and Jerusalem with iniquity.
\q1
\p Micah 3.11: \v 11 Her leaders judge for bribes,
\q2 and her priests teach for a price,
\q2 and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:
\q1 yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,
\q2 “Isn’t Yahweh among us?
\q2 No disaster will come on us.”
\q1
\p Micah 3.12: \v 12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,
\q2 and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,
\q2 and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
\b
\p Luke 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p Luke 21.1: \v 1 He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
\p Luke 21.2: \v 2 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.\f + \fr 21:2 \ft literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.\f*
\p Luke 21.3: \v 3 He said, \wj “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, \wj*
\p Luke 21.4: \v 4 \wj for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.5: \v 5 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
\p Luke 21.6: \v 6 \wj “As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.7: \v 7 They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?”
\p
\p Luke 21.8: \v 8 He said, \wj “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he\wj*\f + \fr 21:8 \ft or, I AM\f*\wj ,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. \wj*
\p Luke 21.9: \v 9 \wj When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.10: \v 10 Then he said to them, \wj “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. \wj*
\p Luke 21.11: \v 11 \wj There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. \wj*
\p Luke 21.12: \v 12 \wj But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. \wj*
\p Luke 21.13: \v 13 \wj It will turn out as a testimony for you. \wj*
\p Luke 21.14: \v 14 \wj Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, \wj*
\p Luke 21.15: \v 15 \wj for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. \wj*
\p Luke 21.16: \v 16 \wj You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. \wj*
\p Luke 21.17: \v 17 \wj You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. \wj*
\p Luke 21.18: \v 18 \wj And not a hair of your head will perish.\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.19: \v 19 \wj “By your endurance you will win your lives.\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.20: \v 20 \wj “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. \wj*
\p Luke 21.21: \v 21 \wj Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein. \wj*
\p Luke 21.22: \v 22 \wj For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. \wj*
\p Luke 21.23: \v 23 \wj Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. \wj*
\p Luke 21.24: \v 24 \wj They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. \wj*
\p Luke 21.25: \v 25 \wj There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; \wj*
\p Luke 21.26: \v 26 \wj men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. \wj*
\p Luke 21.27: \v 27 \wj Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. \wj*
\p Luke 21.28: \v 28 \wj But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.29: \v 29 He told them a parable. \wj “See the fig tree and all the trees. \wj*
\p Luke 21.30: \v 30 \wj When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. \wj*
\p Luke 21.31: \v 31 \wj Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near. \wj*
\p Luke 21.32: \v 32 \wj Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished. \wj*
\p Luke 21.33: \v 33 \wj Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.34: \v 34 \wj “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. \wj*
\p Luke 21.35: \v 35 \wj For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. \wj*
\p Luke 21.36: \v 36 \wj Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”\wj*
\p
\p Luke 21.37: \v 37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.
\p Luke 21.38: \v 38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 1 Corinthians 11.1: \v 1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
\p
\p 1 Corinthians 11.2: \v 2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.3: \v 3 But I would have you know that the head\f + \fr 11:3 \ft or, origin\f* of every man is Christ, and the head\f + \fr 11:3 \ft or, origin\f* of the woman is man, and the head\f + \fr 11:3 \ft or, origin\f* of Christ is God.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.4: \v 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.5: \v 5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.6: \v 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.7: \v 7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.8: \v 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
\p 1 Corinthians 11.9: \v 9 for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.10: \v 10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.
\p
\p 1 Corinthians 11.11: \v 11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.12: \v 12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.13: \v 13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
\p 1 Corinthians 11.14: \v 14 Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
\p 1 Corinthians 11.15: \v 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.16: \v 16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
\p
\p 1 Corinthians 11.17: \v 17 But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.18: \v 18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.19: \v 19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.20: \v 20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.21: \v 21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.22: \v 22 What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
\p
\p 1 Corinthians 11.23: \v 23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.24: \v 24 When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, \wj “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”\wj*
\p 1 Corinthians 11.25: \v 25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, \wj “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”\wj*
\p 1 Corinthians 11.26: \v 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.27: \v 27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.28: \v 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.29: \v 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.30: \v 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.31: \v 31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.32: \v 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.33: \v 33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
\p 1 Corinthians 11.34: \v 34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.1: \v 1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.2: \v 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.3: \v 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.4: \v 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.5: \v 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.6: \v 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.7: \v 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
\p 2 Corinthians 11.8: \v 8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.9: \v 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.10: \v 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.11: \v 11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.12: \v 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.13: \v 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.14: \v 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.15: \v 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.16: \v 16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.17: \v 17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.18: \v 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.19: \v 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.20: \v 20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.21: \v 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.22: \v 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring\f + \fr 11:22 \ft or, seed\f* of Abraham? So am I.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.23: \v 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.24: \v 24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.25: \v 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.26: \v 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
\p 2 Corinthians 11.27: \v 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.28: \v 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.29: \v 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
\p 2 Corinthians 11.30: \v 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.31: \v 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.32: \v 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.33: \v 33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
\p Sirach 4.0: \c 4
\q1
\p Sirach 4.1: \v 1 My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living.
\q2 Don’t make the needy eyes wait long.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.2: \v 2 Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful,
\q2 or provoke a man in his distress.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.3: \v 3 Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked.
\q2 Don’t put off giving to him who is in need.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.4: \v 4 Don’t reject a suppliant in his affliction.
\q2 Don’t turn your face away from a poor man.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.5: \v 5 Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks.
\q2 Give no occasion to a man to curse you.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.6: \v 6 For if he curses you in the bitterness of his soul,
\q2 he who made him will hear his supplication.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.7: \v 7 Endear yourself to the assembly.
\q2 Bow your head to a great man.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.8: \v 8 Incline your ear to a poor man.
\q2 Answer him with peaceful words in humility.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.9: \v 9 Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him that wrongs him;
\q2 Don’t be faint-hearted in giving judgement.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.10: \v 10 Be as a father to the fatherless,
\q2 and like a husband to their mother.
\q1 So you will be as a son of the Most High,
\q2 and he will love you more than your mother does.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.11: \v 11 Wisdom exalts her sons,
\q2 and takes hold of those who seek her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.12: \v 12 He who loves her loves life.
\q2 Those who seek to her early will be filled with gladness.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.13: \v 13 He who holds her fast will inherit glory.
\q2 Where \f + \fr 4:13 \ft Or, \fqa she \f* he enters, the Lord will bless.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.14: \v 14 Those who serve her minister to the Holy One.
\q2 The Lord loves those who love her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.15: \v 15 He who gives ear to her will judge the nations.
\q2 He who heeds her will dwell securely.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.16: \v 16 If he trusts her, he will inherit her,
\q2 and his generations will possess her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.17: \v 17 For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways,
\q2 and will bring fear and dread upon him,
\q2 and torment him with her discipline,
\q2 until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgments.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.18: \v 18 Then she will return him again to the straight way,
\q2 and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.19: \v 19 If he goes astray, she will forsake him,
\q2 and hand him over to his fall.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.20: \v 20 Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil.
\q2 Don’t be ashamed of your soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.21: \v 21 For there is a shame that brings sin,
\q2 and there is a shame that is glory and grace.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.22: \v 22 Don’t show partiality against your soul.
\q2 Don’t revere any man to your falling.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.23: \v 23 Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety.
\q2 \f + \fr 4:23 \ft Some manuscripts omit this line. \f*Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.24: \v 24 For wisdom will be known by speech,
\q2 and instruction by the word of the tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.25: \v 25 Don’t speak against the truth
\q1 and be shamed for your ignorance.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.26: \v 26 Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins.
\q2 Don’t fight the river’s current.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.27: \v 27 Don’t lay yourself down for a fool to tread upon.
\q2 Don’t be partial to one that is mighty.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.28: \v 28 Strive for the truth to death,
\q2 and the Lord God will fight for you.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.29: \v 29 Don’t be rough hasty with your tongue,
\q2 or slack and negligent in your deeds.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.30: \v 30 Don’t be like a lion in your house,
\q2 or suspicious of your servants.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.31: \v 31 Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive,
\q2 and closed when you should repay.
\p Sirach 9.0: \c 9
\q1
\p Sirach 9.1: \v 1 Don’t be jealous over the wife of your bosom,
\q2 and don’t teach her an evil lesson against yourself.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.2: \v 2 Don’t give your soul to a woman,
\q2 that she should set her foot upon your strength.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.3: \v 3 Don’t go to meet a woman who plays the prostitute,
\q2 lest perhaps you fall into her snares.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.4: \v 4 Don’t use the company of a woman who is a singer,
\q2 lest perhaps you be caught by her attempts.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.5: \v 5 Don’t gaze at a maid,
\q2 lest perhaps you be trapped in her penalties.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.6: \v 6 Don’t give your soul to prostitutes,
\q2 that you not lose your inheritance.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.7: \v 7 Don’t look around you in the streets of the city,
\q2 neither wander in its solitary places.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.8: \v 8 Turn your eye away from a beautiful woman,
\q2 and don’t gaze at another’s beauty.
\q1 Many have been led astray by the beauty of a woman;
\q2 and with this, affection is kindled as a fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.9: \v 9 Don’t sit at all with a woman who has a husband,
\q2 or revel with her at the wine,\f + \fr 9:9 \ft The preceding line of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q2 lest perhaps your soul turn away to her,
\q2 and with your spirit you slide into destruction.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.10: \v 10 Don’t forsake an old friend;
\q2 for the new is not comparable to him.
\q1 A new friend is like new wine:
\q2 if it becomes old, you will drink it with gladness.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.11: \v 11 Don’t envy the glory of a sinner;
\q2 for you don’t know what his overthrow will be.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.12: \v 12 Don’t delight in the delights of the ungodly.
\q2 Remember they will not go unpunished to \f + \fr 9:12 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the grave.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.13: \v 13 Keep yourself far from the man who has \f + \fr 9:13 \ft Or, \fqa authority \f* power to kill,
\q2 and you will have no suspicion of the fear of death.
\q1 If you come to him, commit no fault,
\q2 lest he take away your life.
\q1 Know surely that you go about in the midst of snares,
\q2 and walk upon the battlements of a city.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.14: \v 14 As well as you can, aim to know your neighbors,
\q2 and take counsel with the wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.15: \v 15 Let your conversation be with men of understanding.
\q2 Let all your discourse be in the law of the Most High.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.16: \v 16 Let just men be companions at your table.
\q2 Let your glorying be in the fear of the Lord.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.17: \v 17 A work is commended because of the hand of the artisan;
\q2 so he who rules the people will be considered wise for his speech.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.18: \v 18 A talkative man is dangerous in his city.
\q2 He who is headlong in his speech will be hated.
\b
\p 2 Maccabees 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 3.1: \v 1 WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.2: \v 2 it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honor the place, and glorify the temple with the noblest presents;
\p 2 Maccabees 3.3: \v 3 insomuch that even Seleucus the king of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.4: \v 4 But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, fell out with the high priest about the \f + \fr 3:4 \ft Or, \fqa charge of the buildings \ft Gr. \fqa office of aedile. \f* ruling of the market in the city.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.5: \v 5 And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius \add the son \add* of \f + \fr 3:5 \ft Or, \fqa Thraseas \ft The Greek text is probably corrupt. Perhaps the true reading is \fqa Apollonius of Tarsus. \f* Thrasaeus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia:
\p 2 Maccabees 3.6: \v 6 and he brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.7: \v 7 And when Apollonius met the king, he informed him of the money whereof he had been told; and the \add king \add* appointed Heliodorus, who was his chancellor, and sent him with a commandment to accomplish the removal of the aforesaid money.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.8: \v 8 So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey, under a color of visiting the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to execute the king’s purpose.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.9: \v 9 And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest \f + \fr 3:9 \ft Some authorities read \fqa and of the city. \f* of the city, he laid before \f + \fr 3:9 \ft Or, \fqa him \f* \add them \add* an account of the information which had been given \add him, \add* and declared wherefore he was come; and he inquired if in truth these things were so.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.10: \v 10 And the high priest explained to him that there were \add in the treasury \add* deposits of widows and orphans,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.11: \v 11 and moreover some \add money \add* belonging to Hyrcanus the \add son \add* of Tobias, a man in very high place, \f + \fr 3:11 \ft Or, and \fqa not \ft such a man \fqa as that impious Simon slanderously alleged \f* \add and that the case was \add* not as that impious Simon falsely alleged; and that in all there were four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold;
\p 2 Maccabees 3.12: \v 12 and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to them that had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honored over all the world.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.13: \v 13 But \f + \fr 3:13 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the other. \f* Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandments given him, said that in any case this \add money \add* must be confiscated for the king’s treasury.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 3.14: \v 14 So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the inquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.15: \v 15 And the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and \add looking \add* toward heaven, called upon him that gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these \add treasures \add* safe for those that had deposited them.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.16: \v 16 And whoever saw the mien of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his color betrayed the distress of his soul.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.17: \v 17 For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, whereby the pain that was in his heart was plainly shown to those who looked upon him.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.18: \v 18 And those who were in the houses rushed flocking out to make a universal supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.19: \v 19 And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ward ran together, some to the \f + \fr 3:19 \ft Or, \fqa porches \f* gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.20: \v 20 And all, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, made their solemn supplication.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.21: \v 21 Then it would have pitied a man to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the expectation of the high priest in his sore distress.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 3.22: \v 22 While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted \add to them \add* \f + \fr 3:22 \ft Gr. \fqa safe with all security. \f* safe and sure for those that had entrusted them,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.23: \v 23 Heliodorus went on to execute that which had been decreed.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.24: \v 24 But when he was already present there with his guards near the treasury, the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused a great \f + \fr 3:24 \ft Gr. \fqa manifestation. \f* apparition, so that all that had presumed to come \add in \add* with him, stricken with dismay at the power of God, fainted and were sore afraid.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.25: \v 25 For there was seen by them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete armor of gold.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.26: \v 26 Two other also appeared to him, young men notable in their strength, and beautiful in their glory, and splendid in their apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him unceasingly, inflicting on him many sore stripes.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.27: \v 27 And when he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, \add his guards \add* caught him up and put him into a litter,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.28: \v 28 and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.29: \v 29 And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.30: \v 30 they blessed the Lord, that made marvelous his own place; and the temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 3.31: \v 31 But quickly certain of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High, and grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.32: \v 32 And the high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery toward Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the deliverance of the man.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.33: \v 33 But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life;
\p 2 Maccabees 3.34: \v 34 and do you, since you have been scourged from heaven, publish to all men the sovereign majesty of God. And when they had spoken these words, they vanished out of sight.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.35: \v 35 So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed \f + \fr 3:35 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great vows to him that had saved his life, and having graciously received Onias, returned with his army to the king.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.36: \v 36 And he testified to all men the works of the \f + \fr 3:36 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great God which he had seen with his eyes.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 3.37: \v 37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, what manner of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.38: \v 38 If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you shall receive him back well scourged, if he even escape with his life; because of a truth there is about the place a power of God.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.39: \v 39 For he that has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes upon that place, and helps it; and those who come to hurt it he strikes and destroys.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 3.40: \v 40 And such was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury.
\p 4 Maccabees 0.0: \id 4MA
\h 4 Maccabees
\toc1 The Fourth Book of the Maccabees
\toc2 4 Maccabees
\toc3 4Ma
\mt1 THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE MACCABEES
\ip \bk The Fourth Book of the Maccabees\bk* appears in an appendix to the Greek Septuagint. It is considered to be apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.